Inaugural Address to the Third World Academy of Sciences by Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Javier Perez de Cuellar

1987 ◽  
pp. 165-169
Author(s):  
Abdus Salam
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Third World ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Inaugural Address ◽  
The Third ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Death and Transfiguration in the Third World

Worldview ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 20-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irving Louis Horowitz
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Third World ◽  
Economic Cooperation ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
International Conference ◽  
The Third ◽  
International Economic Cooperation ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Third World

The Conference on International Economic Cooperation has all the appearances of a floating crap game: After the windup of this eighteenmonth Paris conference it moves over to UNCTAD, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. This points up the need for the U.N. to sponsor a permanent international clearinghouse on the exchange of data and the pricing of world goods and commodities. It would function as a sort of securities and commodities exchange commission that remains sensitive to the varieties of economic systems and mixtures, but is somehow able to establish guidelines on the relative values of goods, services, and commodities. Such an institutionbuilding process was a major recommendation of the Second International Conference on Environment and Society.

scholarly journals Muhammad Abdus Salam, K. B. E.. 29 January 1926–21 November 1996

1998 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 387-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. W. B. Kibble
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Imperial College ◽  
Theoretical Physics ◽  
The Third ◽  
Abdus Salam ◽  
Founding Director ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Rich Countries

Abdus Salam was one of the leading theoretical physicists of his generation, the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize for science. He was Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College, founding Director of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, and founder and first President of the Third World Academy of Sciences. He was also a warm and generous man, who cared passionately about the inequities between the rich countries and the poor, and argued tirelessly for the importance of science to developing countries.

1. Report of the Interim Committee of the General Assembly on the Problem of Voting in the Security Council, July 15, 1948.

1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-202
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Member States ◽  
The Third ◽  
The United Nations

1. On 21 November 1947, by its resolution 117 (II), the General Assembly requested the Interim Committee to:“1. Consider the problem of voting in the Security Council, taking into account all proposals which have been or may be submitted by Members of the United Nations to the second session of die General Assembly or to the Interim Committee;“2. Consult with any committee which the Security Council may designate to co-operate with the Interim Committee in the study of the problem;“3. Report, with its conclusions, to the third session of the General Assembly, the report to be transmitted to the Secretary-General not later than 15 July 1948, and by the Secretary-General to the Member States and to the General Assembly.”

1. Introduction to the Annual Report of the Secretary-General (Lie) on the Work of the Organization, July 7, 1949

1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 748-758
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Third World ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
World Peace ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Third World War

The year between 1 July 1948 and 30 June 1949 covered in this, my fourth annual report on the work of the United Nations, has been, on the whole, a year of progress towards a more peaceful world.It is true that the world has had its full share of crises and alarms. The rival claims in an ideological conflict have been pressed as though they were the only issue of our times, while the great Powers have continued their efforts to strengthen their relative positions before the situation is brought nearer to stability by the conclusion of peace treaties. Although overshadowed by the great Power differences, movements of national independence and social upheavals in many parts of the world have unavoidably contributed to international tensions. These conditions, which have persisted since the war ended, continue to cause widespread anxiety among the peoples of the world as to the prospects for world peace and the ability of the United Nations to prevent a third world war.

The Limits of U.N. Intervention in the Third World

1968 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest W. Lefever
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Third World ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Political Reform ◽  
State Building ◽  
The Third ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
The Third World

The strangely unreal debate on the feasibility of United Nations intervention in Rhodesia or South Africa (to overthrow “colonialist” regimes) or in Vietnam (to stop or deescalate a war) would benefit from a more serious examination of the largest and most daring U.N. experiment on record. The Congo peacekeeping operation was unique, controversial and costly. The growing body of empirical data about this four-year operation provides a solid basis for understanding the severe limits of the United Nations as an instrument for political reform and crisis management in the Third World, to say nothing of the more difficult tasks of state-building and nation-building.

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