Resolutions and Decisions of the Economic and Social Council: Sessions 2013
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These are the official records of the Resolutions and Decisions of the Economic and Social Council for Organizational and Resumed Organizational and Substantive and Resumed Substantive Sessions of 2013. The Charter of the United Nations established the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) as the principal organ to coordinate the economic, social and related work of the United Nations and its specialized agencies and institutions. The Council has 54 members, who serve for three-year terms. Voting in the Council is by simple majority; each member has one vote.
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Resolutions and Decisions of the Economic and Social Council Organizational session for 2013 New York, 28 January and 12–15 and 28 February 2013 Resumed organizational session for 2013 New York, 25 April and 6 May 2013 Substantive session of 2013 Geneva, 1–26 July 2013 Reconvened substantive session of 2013 New York, 22 October, 6-8 November and 16 December 2013 and 14 January 2014
Economic and Social Council Official Records, 2013 Supplement No. 1
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Publication Date: November 2014 ISBN: 9789218802613
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These are the official documents of Resolutions and Decisions of the Security Council. The Security Council has primary responsibility, under the Charter of the United Nations, for the maintenance of international peace and security. The Council has 15 members: five permanent — China, France, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States — and 10 members elected by the General Assembly for two-year terms. Each member has one vote. Decisions on procedural matters are made by an affirmative vote of at least 9 of the 15 members. Decisions on substantive matters require nine votes and the absence of a negative vote by any of the five permanent members.
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Publication Date: November 2014 ISBN: 9789218900340
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With its comprehensive coverage of political and security matters, human rights issues, economic and social questions, legal issues, and institutional, administrative and budgetary matters, the Yearbook of the United Nations stands as the most authoritative reference work on the activities and concerns of the Organization. Fully indexed, the Yearbook includes the texts of all major General Assembly, Security Council and Economic and Social Council resolutions and decisions, putting all of these in a narrative context of United Nations consideration, decision and action.
his sixty-fourth volume of the Yearbook of the United Nations records the work of the Organization in 2010 as it took up challenges and opportunities worldwide in maintaining international peace and security; fostering economic and social development, and providing humanitarian assistance; promoting and protecting human rights; and advancing international law.
During the year, the United Nations experienced progress and setbacks in implementing peace agreements in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; supporting national elections in the Sudan; and consolidating peace and facilitating political processes in Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The Organization also strengthened international cooperation in fighting piracy off the coast of Somalia, and completed the mandate of the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad. The General Assembly established the United Nations Office to the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to better support that organization in addressing conflicts and managing peacekeeping operations.
The United Nations continued to assist Afghanistan, Iraq and Timor-Leste as well as other countries around the world in restoring peace and stability and rebuilding national institutions. The Security Council imposed further sanctions on Iran for its failure to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency and implement safeguards agreements related to its nuclear programme. The Panel of Inquiry established by the Secretary-General on Israel’s military operation against a humanitarian flotilla sailing to Gaza in May submitted its first progress report in September. In 2010, 15 peacekeeping operations served by some 121,000 uniformed and civilian personnel, along with 12 political and peacebuilding missions with more than 4,000 staff, were deployed worldwide. World leaders participating in the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in September—five years in advance of the 2015 target date for achieving the MDGs—put forward a road map outlining the remaining measures necessary for meeting the goals. In the first resolution adopted by the Assembly in its sixty-fifth session, entitled “Keeping the promise: united to achieve the Millennium Development Goals�, Heads of State and Government, concerned about the continuing impact of the global financial and economic crisis, called for scaling up successful approaches to achieving the MDGs, and reaffirmed their resolve to work together for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples.
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