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IV. Asia and the Pacific
332
Afghanistan, 334: Situation in Afghanistan, 334; Sanctions, 353. Iraq, 362: Situation in Iraq, 362; UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, 362; International Advisory and Monitoring Board, 372. Iraq–Kuwait, 375: Kuwaiti property and missing persons, 375; UN Compensation Commission and Fund, 376. Timor-Leste, 376: United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste, 377; Financing of UN operations, 381. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 384. Nepal, 388. Iran, 394: IAEA reports, 394. Other issues, 396: Myanmar, 396; Sri Lanka, 397; India–Pakistan, 398; Benazir Bhutto assassination inquiry, 398; The Philippines, 399; United Arab Emirates–Iran, 399.
V. Europe and the Mediterranean
400
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 400: Implementation of Peace Agreement, 401; European Union missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 407. Kosovo, 408: Political and security developments, 408; EULEX, 412; UNMIK, 412. The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 414. Georgia, 414: Situation in Abkhazia, 415; UN Observer Mission in Georgia, 419. Armenia and Azerbaijan, 421. Organization for Democracy and Economic Development-GUAM, 422. Cyprus, 422: Political and security developments, 423. Other issues, 431: Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean, 431; Cooperation with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, 432; Observer status, 432.
VI. Middle East
433
Peace process, 433: Diplomatic efforts, 433; Occupied Palestinian Territory, 434. Issues related to Palestine, 458: General aspects, 458; Assistance to Palestinians, 462; UNRWA, 466. Peacekeeping operations, 476: Lebanon, 476; Syrian Arab Republic, 488.
VII. Disarmament UN machinery, 495. UN role in disarmament, 499. Nuclear disarmament, 502: Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, 512; Advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, 516; Prohibition of the use of nuclear weapons, 517. Nonproliferation issues, 518: Non-proliferation treaty, 518; Non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, 520; Multilateralism in disarmament and nonproliferation, 523; International Atomic Energy Agency, 527; Radioactive waste, 532; Nuclear-weapon-free zones, 533. Bacteriological (biological) and chemical weapons, 540: Bacteriological (biological) weapons, 540; Chemical weapons, 542. Conventional weapons, 544: Towards an arms trade treaty, 544; Small arms, 545, Convention on excessively injurious conventional weapons and Protocols, 550; Cluster munitions, 553; Anti-personnel mines, 553; Practical disarmament, 555; Transparency, 555. Other disarmament issues, 560: Prevention of an arms race in outer space, 560; Observance of environmental norms, 562; Science and technology and disarmament, 563. Studies, research and training, 563. Regional disarmament, 564: Central Africa Standing Advisory Committee, 567; Regional centres for peace and disarmament, 568.
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