Example sentences of "the united nations " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has formal relations with the United Nations ( ECOSOC ) , UNESCO , the Council of Europe , the Organisation of American States , and the Organisation of African Unity . |
| 2 | Death squad killings , ‘ disappearances ’ , illegal arrests and torture persist in spite of the Government and the Farabund Marti National Liberation Front signing the Agreement on Human Rights in July 1990 , under the auspices of the United Nations . |
| 3 | Shortly after the United Nations experience , I attended a middle management course at the national Police Staff College at Bramshill in Hampshire . |
| 4 | Now , as a consequence of my eight marginal years on a drug squad , visits to the United Nations , and the three years at university reading a subject which few knew anything about , but would be willing to dismiss along with all of the social sciences , I was in danger of being irrevocably cast into the mould of being a ‘ college man ’ or academic . |
| 5 | Early on Saturday evening , however , while Prague seemed sunk in its customary weekend torpor , West Germany 's veteran foreign minister , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , arrived unannounced , hotfoot from the United Nations . |
| 6 | According to unofficial reports , the arrangement was designed by the West German Foreign Minister , Hans Dietrich Genscher , the new Polish foreign minister , Krzystof Skubiszewski , and the Soviet Foreign Minister , Eduard Shevardnadze , who met recently at the United Nations in New York . |
| 7 | Mr Genscher , who appears to have arranged the solution in talks with his East German , Czechoslovak and Polish counterparts in the United Nations , said his trip to Prague was the most moving of his career . |
| 8 | Can not the British Government instigate action at the United Nations to prevent the Israeli authorities from using television to tell the truth in these matters ? |
| 9 | The first hope of a breakthrough in the saga emerged during a meeting between Mr Shevardnadze and Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the West German Foreign Minister , at the United Nations . |
| 10 | CRIME ‘ The prison population of the USA is bigger than the civilian population of seven member states of the United Nations , and better behaved than four of them . ’ |
| 11 | Sir : A few hours after reading Terry Coleman 's article on the United Nations General Assembly ( 30 September ) , I came across this passage in Trollope 's Barchester Towers , which exactly expressed my feelings , and , I hope , those of many others of your readers : I know no life that must be so delicious as that of a writer for the newspapers … to thunder forth accusations against men in power ; show up the worst side of everything that is produced ; to pick holes in every coat ; to be indignant , sarcastic , jocose , moral , or supercilious ; to damn with faint praise , or crush with open calumny . |
| 12 | Figures in this year 's Military Balance have not been revised to take account of the reductions of 500,000 troops and 10,000 tanks announced by Mikhail Gorbachev at the United Nations last December . |
| 13 | In spite of a spate of speculative press reports , Soviet-Pakistan co-operation at the United Nations does not change Pakistan 's unconditional support for the mujahedin and Soviet support for the Kabul regime . |
| 14 | Mrs Thatcher will deliver a major speech on the environment to the United Nations General Assembly , when she visits New York next month . |
| 15 | He was awarded the Diploma of the Hague Academy of International Law in 1965 and his experience of the practice of international law with the United Nations Relief Works Agency ( Unrwa ) in Beirut , with the Hague Unification Conference and with the European Commission marked him out as exceptional . |
| 16 | There are 68,000 refugees in Khmer Rouge-controlled camps inside Thailand , according to the United Nations border relief operation . |
| 17 | He is now ambassador to the United Nations in New York for the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea . |
| 18 | The Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea ( CGDK ) , made up of the Khmer Rouge , the Sihanoukists and the KPNLF , is recognised by the United Nations . |
| 19 | Mr Bush accepted the Pentagon proposal even though he told the United Nations that he believed ‘ we can achieve the level of verification that gives us confidence to go forward with this ban ’ . |
| 20 | Also at the United Nations , the President called on the Soviet Union to reduce its stocks immediately to 20 per cent of the current US arsenal , which is unofficial estimated to be 30,000 tons . |
| 21 | Administration officials argue that Mr Bush 's speech at the United Nations was in fact a turning point in the US efforts to ban the prodictoion of chemical weapons because it created an atmosphere in which the Geneva negotiations are likley to be accelerated . |
| 22 | Due to the incompetence of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Ethiopia , their condition rapidly deteriorated . |
| 23 | Cedric goes home Mystery surrounds the recent recall to New York of Cedric Thornberry , the Northern Ireland-born bon vivant and occasional spokesman for the United Nations in Namibia . |
| 24 | A BLATANT attempt by South Africa to dictate the terms of next month 's elections in Namibia has been reversed after months of tough negotiations with the United Nations . |
| 25 | The most important of these was his thousand-page Encyclopaedia of the United Nations and International Agreements , published in Philadelphia in 1985 , of which he produced editions in all three languages . |
| 26 | THE HOME OFFICE is pressing ahead with the deportation of a Kurdish refugee , in spite of protests from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees that his life could be in danger if he returns to Turkey . |
| 27 | Further endorsement will be sought at the Commonwealth heads of government conference in Kuala Lumpur next week , and at the General Assembly of the United Nations . |
| 28 | It found that a number of them were ‘ what could be described as pits ’ , according to the Nigerian ambassador , BA Clark , who headed the team and who represents the United Nations Transition Assistance Group ( Untag ) in Angola . |
| 29 | The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has said Selahattin Osberk , 30 , who is due to be put on a flight to Istanbul today , should be granted refugee status and has a well-founded fear of persecution . |
| 30 | Washington seems content to let the United Nations disband the Contras , but Mr Pickering and other US officials have been linking it to the disbanding of the FMLN , without explicitly making it a condition for Washington 's cooperation . |