Day 7 - United Nations Memorial Cemetery
This sacred site has been the cemetery for the UN war braves fallen in the Korean War. An agreement was concluded in 1959 between the United Nations and the Republic of Korea to establish the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Korea to pay ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
WHO / Countries
All countries which are Members of the United Nations may become members of WHO by accepting its Constitution. Other countries may be admitted as members when their application has been approved by a simple majority vote of the World Health ... [... more]
World Health Organization |
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick was the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1981 to 1985 and a member of the National Security Council during the Reagan administration. She was a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, the founder of ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Rita Cristofari
Rita Cristofari has worked as a press officer for the United Nations and Médecins Sans Frontières and for France 2 television. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
For years the United States has treated the United Nations as an extension of its own foreign policy, while other member states--especially smaller, less influential countries--have looked to the United Nations to represent their collective ... [... more]
Random House |
Michael A. Sheehan
MICHAEL A. SHEEHAN has held the following positions: New York City Deputy Commissioner for Counterterrorism; Assistant Secretary General in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations at the United Nations; Ambassador at Large for Counterterrorism ... [... more]
Random House |
Disarming Iraq
Hans Blix was the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1981 to 1997 and was a member of Sweden's delegation to the United Nations from 1961 to 1981. From 2000 to 2003, he was the executive director of the United Nations ... [... more]
Random House |
Dag Hammarskjold
Dag Hammarskjold was born in Jonkoping, Sweden, in 1905, and died near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, on September 18, 1961, in an air crash while flying there to negotiate a cease-fire between United Nations and Katanga forces.The son of the Swedish ... [... more]
Random House |
Tower of Babble
Dore Gold, the bestselling author of Hatred's Kingdom, served as Israel's ambassador to the United Nations from 1997 through 1999 and has been a diplomatic envoy to numerous international leaders. Ambassador Gold, who earned his Ph.D. in ... [... more]
Random House |
Climate Change
Australian Centre for Environmental Stress and Adaptation Research United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change (UNFCCC) The Hadley Centre for Climate Change Prediction and Research (UK) National Biodiversity and Climate Change Action ... [... more]
Australian National Botanic Gardens |
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