I got tied up with General Slater. I bumped into him in the Officers' Club.

This implicitly reflects the preoccupation of the United Nations in 1992.

In this atmosphere of public silence, the virtually vacant public space is filled with odd voices that are not intended for public consumption.

The Government has been engaged in preparations for presidential elections, which, as provided for in the Political Transition Charter, were envisaged by 7 May 2005.

She made much of her humble origins as the daughter of a Grantham grocer, and had no time for the Establishment, which she blamed for Britain s moral and economic decline.

Other leading figures, such as William J. Robinson and Mary Dennett, chose to work in the background, or turned their attention to other causes.

Her Office had established general time lines but there was as yet less political support for the details of the reform because member States had been distracted by the issue of reform of the Commission on Human Rights.

A considerable number of children, especially in rural areas, are now engaged in domestic and remunerative activities (tending livestock, etc.).

These triumphant achievements came in precisely those two areas that had most deeply engaged the United Nations for the greater part of its existence South Africa and the Middle East.

Unlike the inter State conflicts which traditionally have preoccupied the United Nations, these are conflicts taking place within the confines of the nation State, where legitimate authority has either collapsed or been emaciated by civil strife.

In Russia, they were heavily involved in the Russian Civil War fighting the Bolsheviks, at times controlling most of the Trans Siberian railway and conquering all major cities in Siberia.

Dr. Corbin (United States Virgin Islands) said that his Government had been engaged for the past 30 years in the question of the participation of Non Self Governing Territories in the work of the United Nations and its specialized agencies.

Comprehensive information was not provided until mid November 1994, at which time the Committee was fully occupied with other pressing items such as its report on the administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of peace keeping operations (A 49 664).

And it brings together many themes that I've been thinking about for the last quarter century, experiences that I've had living globalization as a Canadian educated in Britain, living many years in different parts of Latin America and thinking about the ways in which societies of the world have been affecting each other,

In this atmosphere of public silence, the virtually vacant public space is filled with odd voices that are not intended for public consumption. The billboards were them communicating in our common space, exchanging messages, as it were, over our heads .

But the Warsaw Pact, the Soviet Union s anti NATO alliance of socialist countries, was dissolved in 1991 communism imploded the same year, with Russia caught ever since in a struggle to build a market economy and define a new global position for itself.