Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization
General Assembly
Official Records
Fifty-third Session
Supplement No. 1 (A/53/1)
Contents
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Chapter |
Paragraphs |
Page |
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Introduction |
1–16 |
1 |
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I. Achieving peace and security |
17–72 |
3 |
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Prevention |
25–55 |
3 |
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Diplomacy |
31–42 |
4 |
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Preventive deployment |
43–44 |
5 |
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Disarmament |
45–55 |
5 |
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Peacekeeping |
56–61 |
7 |
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Sanctions |
62–64 |
7 |
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Post-conflict peace-building |
65–69 |
8 |
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Complementary strategies |
70–72 |
8 |
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II. Cooperating for development |
73–121 |
9 |
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Eradication of poverty |
84–91 |
10 |
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Social development |
92–105 |
11 |
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Sustainable development |
106–109 |
12 |
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Fostering investment and growth |
110–113 |
13 |
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Supporting good governance |
114–121 |
13 |
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III. Meeting humanitarian commitments |
122–146 |
15 |
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Coordinating humanitarian action |
126–135 |
15 |
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Delivering humanitarian services |
136–141 |
16 |
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Assisting refugees |
142–146 |
17 |
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IV. Engaging with globalization |
147–168 |
19 |
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The economic dimension |
149–153 |
19 |
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The environmental dimension |
154–162 |
19 |
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“Uncivil” society |
163–168 |
20 |
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V. Strengthening the international legal order |
169–183 |
23 |
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The human rights regime |
171–175 |
23 |
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The international tribunals |
176–179 |
23 |
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The International Criminal Court |
180–183 |
24 |
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VI. Managing change |
184–226 |
25 |
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Creating a culture of communication |
185–193 |
25 |
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Administration and management |
194–201 |
26 |
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Legal affairs |
202–211 |
27 |
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Project services |
212–216 |
28 |
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Accountability and oversight |
217–226 |
28 |
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VII. Conclusion |
227–236 |
31 |
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I. Achieving peace and security
17. The world has been mercifully free from large-scale regional conflict over the past 12 months. Many local wars have continued, however, and new ones have broken out, including, for the first time in this decade, a war over territory between two neighbouring States, Eritrea and Ethiopia. While there have been some important successes for the international community, including the restoration of the democratically elected Government in Sierra Leone, peace in many parts of the world remains precarious. Moreover peace processes in several regions, including some to which the United Nations has devoted extensive resources over a long period, show a distressing tendency to unravel.
18. Of particular concern is the lack of progress in the Middle East peace process; the turmoil in Afghanistan; the escalation of violence in Kosovo (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia); the ongoing civil war in the Sudan; the continuing instability and violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the rest of the Great Lakes region; and the return to civil war in Angola. Our efforts in Angola were dealt a severe blow when my Special Representative, Alioune Blondin Beye, was tragically killed in a plane crash on 26 June, together with seven others. The rising tensions between India and Pakistan over Kashmir and other issues is also a major cause of concern, as is the stalemated peace process in Cyprus.
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Diplomacy
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38. Earlier this year a new United Nations Political Office was established in Bougainville, the first United Nations political mission to the South Pacific. The quiet diplomacy of peacemaking has also been pursued during the past year in the Middle East, South Asia, Angola, Cambodia, Cyprus, Somalia and Western Sahara.
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Peacekeeping
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61. The total number of peacekeepers in the field has declined since the early 1990s, as a consequence of the winding down of several major United Nations operations, but the actual number of United Nations peacekeeping operations has in fact risen from 15 to 17 in the past year. Six of these are in Europe, four in the Middle East, four in Africa, two in Asia and one in the Americas. Under the auspices of the Department of Political Affairs, the United Nations also maintains a human rights and judicial reform mission in Guatemala.
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Assisting refugees
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145. Combining both humanitarian and development work, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East continues to provide relief and social services to 3.5 million Palestine refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic and the West Bank and Gaza Strip. With a deficit of $62 million in the 1998 budget of $314 million, which follows chronic budget shortfalls since 1993, the Agency’s level and standard of service has however continued to decline.
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Document Type: Annual report, Report
Document Sources: General Assembly, Secretary-General
Subject: Middle East situation, Peace proposals and efforts, Refugees and displaced persons
Publication Date: 27/08/1998