The fourth challenge is to better promote human rights.

Its main responsibility is to attend to appeals originating from the Territorial Court, which, until recently, had been referred to the United States Federal District Court of the Virgin Islands.

A land where there is a wish for Siam to take her place in the modern world, but where everything still remains according to the wishes of the king!

An association of doctors in Zimbabwe has made calls for President Mugabe to make moves to assist the ailing health service.

Only when the needs and priorities of a society are fully reflected in policies and programmes can the well being of that society as a whole be advanced.

Despite the great strides that Burma has made in the last two years, the specter of ethnic conflict continues to haunt the transition to democracy.

I know I could never have designed something as elegant and as totally in tune with the local conditions as this.

It is critical that in this era of partnership the developed countries join hands with us in South Asia and help us to ensure that our people are class='bold'>class='bold'>uplifted economically.

We must take advantage of an unprecedented consensus on how to promote global economic and social development, and we must forge a new consensus on how to confront new threats.

quot 26.1 The basic mandate of the programme derives from the second and fourth preambular paragraphs of the Charter of the United Nations, which reaffirm the dignity and worth of the human person and the promotion of social progress.

All development policies should be flexible enough to accommodate the ingenuity and creative power of all individuals. This is indeed our guarantee of progress and excellence in human endeavour.

Thus, a heavy responsibility is placed on this Organization, which, as we all know, is the main body responsible for promoting social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom.

The determination stated in the Charter to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom expresses what has become, beyond doubt, the most compelling task of the Organization

Reaffirming its faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and its determination to promote social progress and better standards of living in greater freedom,

Fifty years after the United Nations avowed in its Charter to promote social progress and better standards of living in greater freedom, the time has come to put sustainable human development at the top of the Organization apos s agenda.

In particular, we are looking forward to expanding relations with the various agencies in the United Nations family, not only because of their valuable role in the future development in South Africa but also because of the opportunity for South Africa to contribute to international upliftment programmes.

(a) The process of global and regional integration will call for new forms of science and technology cooperation, including, for example, cooperation among industrial enterprises and research centres from two or more developing countries in order to upgrade technology and product quality

I return now to the point at which I started the role that the United Nations has played in the almost 50 years since the Charter was signed to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom .

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TD Of course, I rejoice in the development and the growth and the rise of the noble land of India, the great country of India, but at the same time, I think, as some of us have acknowledged, we need to be aware that some aspects of this rise are coming at the cost of the very ground on which we stand.