25th Anniversary of the United Nations, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements... |
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Page 29 - The parties to any dispute, the continuance of which is likely to endanger the maintenance of international peace and security, shall first of all, seek a solution by negotiation, enquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement, resort to regional agencies or arrangements, or other peaceful means of their own choice.
Page 71 - The term enemy state as used in paragraph 1 of this article applies to any state which during the Second World War has been an enemy of any signatory of the present charter.
Page 71 - That for the purpose of maintaining international peace and security pending the reestablishment of law and order and the inauguration of a system of general security, they will consult with one another, and as occasion requires, with other members of the United Nations with a view to joint action on behalf of the community of nations.
Page 376 - I do not wish to seem overdramatic but I can only conclude from the information that is available to me as Secretary-General that the Members of the United Nations have perhaps ten years left in which to subordinate their ancient quarrels and launch a global partnership to curb the arms race, to improve the human environment, to defuse the population explosion, and to supply the required momentum to development efforts.
Page 552 - The General Assembly shall elect six other Members of the United Nations to be non-permanent members of the Security Council, due regard being specially paid, in the first instance to the contribution of Members of the United Nations to the maintenance of international peace and security and to the other purposes of the Organization, and also to equitable geographical distribution.
Page 553 - Resources, by the Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, HR Rep.
Page 264 - Surely we should explore whether the scientists and astronauts of our two countries — indeed of all the world — cannot work together in the conquest of space, sending some day in this decade to the moon, not the representatives of a single nation, but the representatives of all of our countries.
Page 26 - Nations when they have been adopted by a vote of two- thirds of the members of the General Assembly and ratified in accordance with their respective constitutional processes by two-thirds of the Members of the United Nations, including all the permanent members of the Security Council.
Page 275 - I like to believe that people, in the long run, are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Page 262 - We have begun a major effort to make family planning services available at home, and we have made increasing funds for family planning available in our foreign aid program. The General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council, the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, the United Nations Children's Fund, the World Health Organization, and UNESCO have all established legislative mandates for action by their executive leadership. The World Bank under Robert McNamara has also moved swiftly...