DOCUMENTATION: Extract of the Speech by Mr S Dhanabalan, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Culture, Government of Singapore, at the 39th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, New York on 26 September 1984

1985 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 250-252
Author(s):  
. . ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
The United Nations

General Assembly

1952 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 559-575
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New York ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
New Members ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Regular Session

The seventh regular session of the United Nations General Assembly convened at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on Tuesday, October 14, 1952, to consider an agenda which included, in addition to administrative, legal and financial items, the reports of various organs and agencies of the United Nations, and the continuing problems of Korea, the limitation and reduction of armaments, economic development and the admission of new Members, certain new problems such as the questions of Morocco and Tunisia, minorities in the Union of South Africa and the complaint of violation by Arab states of their obligations under the Charter.

Human Rights Prize awarded to the ICRC

1978 ◽  
Vol 18 (207) ◽  
pp. 341-341
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
The United Nations

The International Committee of the Red Cross was one of the recipients of the 1978 Human Rights Prize, which the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Kurt Waldheim, presented to the President of the ICRC, Mr. Alexander Hay, in New York on 11 December before the United Nations General Assembly, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. The prize was awarded to the ICRC for its work in promoting observance of human rights.

Arab League

1952 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-134
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
Arab League ◽  
Sixth Session ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Arab States

At the meeting of the Arab League's Political Committee during October 1951, the committee decided to recommend to the Council that all Arab states, Members of the United Nations press for the inclusion of the Moroccan case on the agenda of the sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly. On October 4, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt (Eldin) requested the General Assembly that the item “violation of the principles of the Charter and of the Declaration of Human Rights by France in Morocco” be placed on its agenda.

Of Gnats and Camels: Is There a Double Standard at the United Nations?

1984 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 811-833 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Franck
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
United Nations ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Double Standard ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The U.S

Does the United Nations, in Saint Matthew’s words, “strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel”? Ambassador John L. Loeb, Jr., a U.S. alternate delegate to the 38th United Nations General Assembly in 1983, spoke for many in and outside the U.S. Government when, after the end of the session, he charged in the New York Times that “[f]or decades, the United Nations has practiced a double standard.” Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick has elaborated the same point, accusing the Organization of being “perverted by politicization.”

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