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102006
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THE UN'S BLUE BERETS have become a permanent feature of world politics in the past few decades. No matter where interstate or internal conflicts flare up in the world, the UN duly sends international military contingents and observers, as well as police officers and civilian personnel, to these hot spots to halt the hostilities and restore stability. This activity has essentially been the visible embodiment of the UN's global role, its business card, for more than 60 years now.
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144958
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MANY PEOPLE think of the UN as a place where people dressed in sharp business suits, with a serious air, make decisions that are often crucial for the fate of entire countries and nations. And they are not very far from the truth. The world's universal organization, which is marking its 70th anniversary, indeed deals with very important things: the maintenance of international peace and security, development problems, the eradication of diseases and poverty, the promotion of social progress and providing better living standards for people throughout the world - in short, everything that is recorded in the UN Charter, which was adopted 70 years ago. This, as they say, is no joking matter. Suffice it to say that resolutions that are adopted by the UN's leading body, the Security Council, are legally binding documents in international law. Failure to observe them can have very serious consequences, including enforcement measures, for a member state guilty of such transgression.
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088140
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2009.
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THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC CRISIS put a noticeable imprint on the preparations for the International Conference on Financing for Development, held at Doha, Qatar, from November 29 to December 2, 2008, and even made certain countries doubt the timeliness and expediency of that undertaking. But eventually a responsible approach prevailed, which made it possible to inscribe that high-level conference within the planned timeframe, with delegations from 169 UN and EC member-states (40 of them led by the heads of state and government) attending.
Thus, despite the intensification of the financial and economic crisis, the world community confirmed its resolve to work for the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) set by the UN 2000 Summit. Yet another important step forward was made that secured the consistency of the course launched during the high-level events on assistance to Africa and on the MDG progress, which were held within the framework of the 63rd Session of the UN GA in New York on September 22 and 25, 2008.
The Doha Conference held a special place among those events. There is a growing awareness in the world that an effective solution to the development funding problems is crucial to success in all other vectors, be it the halving by 2015 of the numbers of people living in extreme poverty, reduction of child and maternal mortality levels, the fight against dangerous infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, malaria, and TB, or universal elementary education, access to drinking water, gender equality and sustainable ecological development parameters.
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2009.
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THE 64TH SESSION of the UN General Assembly opened in New York in September. The apparently routine, traditional forum this time was really special. That was due not only to a record high participation of UN member states (even though it was a regular, not jubilee session, more than 120 heads of state and government arrived in New York) but also to the wide range of international issues demanding coordinated decisions on the part of the world community. Naturally, the level of participation by UN delegations was also influenced by the Pittsburgh summit of leaders of the world's 20 largest economies.
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