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2010-09-27 International-UN-NGOs

Czech president tells UN to stay out of economics

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Posted by Fred 2010-09-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 If I recall correctly, Vaclav Klaus is a trained economist. His predecessor, Vaclav Havel, was a published playwright and anti-Soviet dissident.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-09-27 09:16|| 2010-09-27 09:16|| Front Page Top

#2 ... the Swiss president of the General Assembly, Joseph Deiss, who said on Thursday at the opening of the annual gathering of world leaders in New York that it was time for the United Nations to "comprehensively fulfill its global governance role."

That's why the Swiss waited till 2002 to join, by a very narrow margin, even with the UN operating a good number of offices in Geneva since the assumption of the old League of Nations based there.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-09-27 10:50|| 2010-09-27 10:50|| Front Page Top

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