scholarly journals His Contribution to the Development of Ukrainian Diplomacy should not be forgotten

2019 ◽  
pp. 161-167
Author(s):  
Yurii Bohaievsky ◽  
Ihor Turianskyi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
History Of ◽  
The United Nations

The article is dedicated to Heorhiy H. Shevel, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Soviet Ukraine from August of 1970 to November of 1980.The authors presented sincere recollections about this well known person, under whose leadership they began their diplomatic service that lasted for several decades. The decision to share those memories with readers of Diplomatic Ukraine was prompted by the fact that on May 9 this year was Mr. Shevel`s 100 anniversary. Unfortunately, neither the researchers of the history of Ukrainian diplomacy, nor those in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Diplomatic Academy paid the necessary tribute to this event. The authors of the article focus on the fact that with no previous experience in foreign policy matters Mr. Shevel managed in the conditions of a totalitarian Soviet system to realize important ideas in the interests of the Ukrainian diplomatic service and its development. From the very start of his duties as Minister of Foreign Affairs he undertook many practical steps to promote and improve the professional skills of his subordinates, to ensure their perfect command of foreign languages and to provide the Ministry`s staff and Ukraine`s permanent missions at the United Nations in New York, UNESCO in Paris and at other international organizations with a skilled personnel. Moreover, despite essential dependence on the policy of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Shevel also succeeded in ensuring more visible results of participation of the Ukrainian SSR in the activities of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and in the International Labour Organization. During his term as Minister for Foreign Affairs, representatives of the Ukrainian SSR were elected 37 times to the governing bodies of various international organizations, their sessions and conferences. As an evidence of substantial resurgence of Ukrainian diplomacy of the said period is the fact that the Ukrainian SSR also signed and ratified 64 multilateral international documents. Minister Shevel also paid particular attention to establishing Ukraine`s image abroad as one of the original members of the United Nations, by promoting its achievements in scientific, cultural and humanitarian fields, as well as to strengthening ties with Ukrainian communities in various foreign countries. This very important component of its work the Ministry of Foreign Affairs accomplished in close cooperation with two public organizations – the Society for ties with Ukrainians abroad (Society Ukraina) and the Ukrainian Society for friendship and cultural relations with foreign countries. Minister H. Shevel was also the initiator of the construction in Kyiv of several buildings to locate Consulates–General of Eastern-European states. Nowadays, these buildings are used by diplomatic missions of respective foreign states accredited in independent Ukraine. The authors of the reviewed article are confident that despite various fabricated and often unfounded conclusions about the Ukrainian diplomacy of the Soviet period the irrefutable fact is that during Minister Shevel`s years it acquired and strengthened the necessary practical experience and professional diplomatic skills. Therefore, they support as indisputable the conclusion made several years ago by one of the researchers of the history of National diplomacy that “it would be incorrect to consider the 1970s of the past century as such that passed off in vain for the Ukrainian foreign-policy office”.30 years have passed since the untimely death of Heorhiy H. Shevel on July 17, 1989. Being a man of his times and performing highly responsible duties of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, in actually limited framework, he was at the same time a peculiar and extraordinary personality. And as such a figure he will always remain in the memory of all who knew him well and had the opportunity to work under his management. Because memory, emphasize the authors of the noted article, means first and foremost the ability not to forget the past. And this, they remark, is what the present generation of Ukrainian diplomats must keep in view and never forget. Keywords: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ukrainian diplomacy, foreign policy, international organizations, diplomatic service, memory.

1. The best hope of mankind? A brief history of the UN

2015 ◽  
pp. 8-25
Author(s):  
Jussi M. Hanhimäki
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
International Peace ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The United Nations

The International Peace Conference in 1899 established the Permanent Court of Arbitration as the first medium for international disputes, but it was the League of Nations, established in 1919 after World War I, which formed the framework of the system of international organizations seen today. The United Nations was created to manage the world's transformation in the aftermath of World War II. ‘The best hope of mankind? A brief history of the UN’ shows how the UN has grown from the 51 nations that signed the UN Charter in 1945 to 193 nations in 2015. The UN's first seven decades have seen many challenges with a mixture of success and failure.

The Politics of Human Rights Diplomacy

2020 ◽  
pp. 097359842094343
Author(s):  
Anupama Ghosal ◽  
Sreeja Pal
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
United Nations ◽  
National Security ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Precise Formulation ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Relationship

The issue of Human Rights features as a prominent agenda of the United Nations and its related international organizations. However, when it comes to precise formulation of a country’s foreign policy in bilateral or multilateral forums, the issues of trade and national security find priority over pressing human rights violations occurring within the countries engaged in the diplomatic dialogue. An often-employed reason behind such an approach is the need to respect sovereignty and non-interference of a country in diplomacy. This article aims at analysing the potential which diplomacy holds to pressurize recalcitrant regimes to respect human rights. In doing so, the article tries to explore the ambit of Human Rights Diplomacy and the relationship between agenda of politics and human rights.

Efforts to Improve International Migration Statistics: A Historical Perspective

1987 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 967-995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Percy Kraly ◽  
K.S. Gnanasekaran
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
The Past ◽  
International Labor ◽  
History Of ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Statistical Systems

During the past decade the international statistical community has made several efforts to develop standards for the definition, collection and publication of statistics on international migration. This article surveys the history of official initiatives to standardize international migration statistics by reviewing the recommendations of the ISI, International Labor Organization and the United Nations and reports a recently proposed agenda for moving toward comparability among national statistical systems.

The Union Republics and Soviet Diplomacy: Concepts, Institutions, and Practices

1959 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 383-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vernon V. Aspaturian
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Marked Contrast ◽  
Soviet Government ◽  
The Past ◽  
Soviet Foreign Policy ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Precise Role

Ever since the constitutional improvisations of February 1, 1944, one of the enigmatic and obscure aspects of Soviet diplomacy has been the precise role of the Union Republics in its execution, administration and procedures. Aside from the participation of the Ukraine and Byelorussia in the work of the United Nations and its affiliated bodies and conferences, little attention has been paid to the role or potential of the Union Republics in Soviet foreign policy. Their apparent diplomatic inertia, however, is misleading, for in marked contrast to their meager formal participation in external affairs is their increasing implication in the quasi-diplomatic maneuvers of the Soviet Government. Furthermore, the juridical capacity of the Republics to embark on diplomatic adventures meets the formal canons of internal and international law, and remains intact in spite of the past dormancy of their diplomatic organs. At opportune moments it may be transmuted into concrete diplomatic benefits.

Politics in the Security Council

1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Dennett
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
Practical Politics ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
World Organization

Official international organizations are mechanisms which states join because they believe that membership will enable them more effectively to achieve the broad goals of their respective foreign policies. While there is no question that there has been a considerable element of idealism in its creation, the countries which have joined the United Nations have done so because they believe – or hope – that one or another of the instrumentalities provided by United Nations machinery can be used to their advantage. They may wish to improve their standard of living, to provide some increased measure of security either through implementation of the idea of world organization or through other specific policies, or to promote, perhaps, an expansion of their influence. With fifty–nine different Members, it would hardly be surprising to find fifty–nine differing points of view, and it should not be surprising to find these countries playing practical politics to get out of the United Nations precisely what they joined it to achieve, or, since there may be differences, what they desire to achieve after they have once been admitted. Each Member is, in short, using – or trying to use – United Nations machinery to further its own foreign policy.

Prescribing for the reform of international organization: the logic of arguments for change

1987 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Taylor
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Scholarly Writing ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Nations

In this essay I examine the main characteristics of the proposals which have been put forward over the past few years for the reform of international institutions, particularly the United Nations. The latter's social and economic arrangements in particular have been subject to a series of incisive, hard hitting reports—the most recent being Maurice Bertrand's Report of December 19851—which have themselves become almost a matter of routine: nothing changes, even the intelligence and perception of the criticism. This essay is intended to provide a part of the answer to the question of why nothing is ever done. In addition to difficulties arising from the interests of states and organizations which are involved, there are also a range of problems arising from different conceptions of what international organizations are and can do. This essay deals with the latter. The conceptions dealt with are those found in the writings of students of international organization, largely British and American, rather than in the words or deeds of practitioners. The nature of the link between scholarly writing and the practice of international relations is itself complex and contentious and is not explored in this essay. The minimalist assumptions are made, however, that disagreements among scholars make it less likely that practitioners will agree to co-operate, and that scholarly reconciliation is at least a first step towards practical improvement.

scholarly journals Psychological Science at the United Nations: Historical Trends

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold Takooshian
Keyword(s):  
Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
United Nations ◽  
History Of Psychology ◽  
Historical Trends ◽  
The Past ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
History Of ◽  
The United Nations

Since the United Nations was formed by 51 nations on June 26, 1945, psychology organizations were slow to register with the UN as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the past 75 years. This essay briefly describes the four-stage history of psychology NGOs at the United Nations, which have grown far more active and coordinated since 2004.

scholarly journals Continuidades e mudanças no discurso brasileiro para obtenção de assento permanente no Conselho de Segurança da ONU dos governos Fernando Henrique Cardoso e Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 525-547
Author(s):  
Natalia Bandeira Ramos Coelho
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
United Nations Security Council ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Un General Assembly ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Government

Este artigo buscar ampliar a compreensão de um dos principais objetivos da diplomacia brasileira, a candidatura do Brasil ao Conselho de Segurança da ONU (CSNU). O relançamento oficial dessa meta da política externa foi feito pelo Chanceler Celso Amorim, em 1994, durante o governo do Presidente Itamar Franco. Realizou-se uma análise dessa aspiração do Estado brasileiro a partir do estudo comparativo dos discursos proferidos pelos governos dos Presidentes Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2002) e Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) nas Sessões Anuais de abertura da Assembleia Geral das Nações Unidas (AGNU).  Abstract: This article seeks to broaden understanding of one of the main objectives of Brazilian Foreign Policy: the latter’s campaign for a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The current aspiration to rise to a a long-lasting member status in the UN’s most exclusive body was launched in 1994 by the government of former President Itamar Franco, during the tenure of Foreign Affairs Minister Celso Amorim. This study makes a comparative analysis of the speeches made by the administrations of Presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2002) and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010), delivered at the annual sessions of the UN General Assembly.

Yugoslav Territory, United Nations Trusteeship or Sovereign State? Reflections on the Current and Future Legal Status of Kosovo

2001 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-460
Author(s):  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
International Security ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
The Past ◽  
Diplomatic Protection ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Human Rights Standards ◽  
Permanent Residents

AbstractSecurity Council Resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999 established a United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo. The United Nations has thereby assumed exclusive legislative and executive powers over the territory, notwithstanding the fact that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia still retained title over the territory in question. The present article analyses the current international legal status of Kosovo and the source of United Nations authority to administer the territory, taking into account relevant precedents where international organizations have done so in the past. In addition, the article addresses a number of more specific questions concerning the exercise of direct administering authority by the United Nations and, in particular, the question whether, and if so, to what extent human rights standards are applicable to both the actions of UNMIK and actions undertaken by the international security presence in Kosovo, KFOR. Before outlining a possible scenario for the future, permanent international and constitutional status of Kosovo, two other pertinent questions are also dealt with, i.e. whether UNMIK may represent Kosovo vis-à-vis third states by concluding treaties on behalf of the territory, and whether UNMIK may exercise diplomatic protection with regard to permanent residents of Kosovo.

Participation And Cooperation Of Uzbekistan And Belarus In The United Nations

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (03) ◽  
pp. 59-63
Author(s):  
Atakhanov Bakhtiyor Turabaevich ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
International Projects ◽  
History Of ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Republic

This article covers the history of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Republic of Belarus being one of the influential international organizations, joining the United Nations organization, its participation, support and participation in international projects under the auspices of the organization. The article also covers the relations between the countries of Uzbekistan and Belarus within the framework of the UN.

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