Peace-keeping, decolonization, information matters reviewed.Peace-keeping The General Assembly on 6 December, in stressing the need for the UN to "continue to improve its capabilities in the field of peace-keeping and to enhance the effective and efficient deployment of its peace-keeping missions", urged Member States, the UN Secretariat and relevant organs to take all necessary steps to: improve the peace-keepers' safety and security, complete a code of conduct for them, strengthen peace-keeping training programmes, and seek further progress on stand-by arrangements, including the development of a rapidly deployable Headquarters team of personnel skilled in essential military and civilian functions. Acting on the recommendation of its Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization decolonization Process by which colonies become independent of the colonizing country. Decolonization was gradual and peaceful for some British colonies largely settled by expatriates but violent for others, where native rebellions were energized by nationalism. ), the Assembly, by resolution 50/30, also stated that additional costs resulting from any of those proposals should be accommodated within the appropriation levels approved by the Assembly. Information By its two resolutions on "information in the service of humanity", the Assembly called upon (50/31 A) all countries and the UN system as a whole to "cooperate and interact with a view to reducing existing disparities in information flows at all levels", and ensure for journalists the "free and effective performance of their professional tasks and condemn resolutely all attacks against them". Also, while urging "all efforts to ensure timely production and dissemination" of the UN Department of Public Information's major publications--in particular the UN Chronicle The UN Chronicle is a publication of the Outreach Division of the United Nations department of public information. External links
Decolonization In an omnibus resolution (50/38 A and B) on 12 Non-Self-Governing Territories--American Samoa, Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands A British colony in the eastern Caribbean east of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Road Town, on Tortola Island, is the capital. Population: 21,700. Noun 1. , the Cayman Islands Cayman Islands (kā`mən), British dependency (2005 est. pop. 44,300), 100 sq mi (259 sq km), comprising three islands in the West Indies. , Guam, Montserrat, Pitcairn, St. Helena, Tokelau, the Turks and Caicos Islands Turks and Caicos Islands (kī`kōs), dependency of Great Britain (2005 est. pop. 20,600), 166 sq mi (430 sq km), West Indies. There are more than 30 cays and islands, of which only six are inhabited. , and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Virgin Islands--the Assembly, among other things, asked the administering Powers to take "all necessary measures to protect and conserve the environment of the Territories under their administration against any environmental degradation Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems and the extinction of wildlife. ". Separate resolutions were adopted on Western Sahara (50/36) and New Caledonia (50/37). Other texts dealt with: information on economic, social and educational conditions in Non-Self-Governing Territories (50/32); activities of foreign economic and other interests impeding the implementation of the 1960 Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (50/33); implementation of the 1960 Declaration by specialized agencies and international institutions associated with the UN (50/34); offers by Member States of study and training facilities for the Territories' inhabitants
The game is based loosely on the concepts from SameGame. (50/35); Gibraltar (decision 50/415); and military activities by colonial Powers in Territories under their administration (50/412). Other matters Approving a total of 31 texts--26 resolutions and 5 decisions--the Fourth Committee also considered a variety of other issues: the effects of atomic radiation (50/26); international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space (50/27); activities of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (50/28 A-G A-G Air-to-Ground ); and report of the Special Committee to investigate Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinians and other Arabs of the occupied territories (50/29 A-D A-D Advance-Decline, or measurement of the number of issues trading above their previous closing prices less the number trading below their previous closing prices over a particular period. ). By a separate decision, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea The People's Republic of Korea (PRK) was a short-lived provisional government organized to take over control of the country after the Surrender of Japan at the end of the Pacific War. It existed in August and September 1945. was admitted to the Committee on Information, which brought its total membership to 89. The Assembly also decided to defer consideration of two of its agenda items--the situation in the occupied territories of Croatia, and the composition of the UN relevant organs--until its fifty-first session. |
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