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The ATP is an Agreement between States, and there is no overall enforcing authority. In practice, highway checks are carried out by Contracting Parties, and non-compliance may then result in legal...

Official Records of the Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2002, General Assembly Official Records, Fifty-seventh session.


This publication evaluates the institutional record on conflict prevention, identifies current trends in conflict prevention practice, and makes recommendations on improving organizational capacity...

This publication examines the institutional bases and diplomatic practices that underpin global governance. It analyzes the means by which global governance has been promoted by innovative diplomatic...

In the 1990s the United Nations, the militaries of key member states, and Non-Governmental Organizations became increasingly entangled in the complex affairs of disrupted states. In some situations...

Official Records of the Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2009, General Assembly Official Records, Sixty-fourth session.


Official Records of the Economic and Social Council for 2010, General Assembly Official Records, Sixty-fifth session.


When the international community responds to a massive humanitarian emergency, such as the one in Liberia, the operation that results is both complicated and short-lived. The Peacekeepers, Politicians...

Official Records of the Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2015, General Assembly Official Records, Seventieth Session.


Official Records of the Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2014, General Assembly Official Records, Sixty-ninth session.


Official Records of the Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2011, General Assembly Official Records, Sixty-sixth session.


Official Records of the Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2012, General Assembly Official Records, Sixty-seventh session.

Official Records of the Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2013, General Assembly Official Records, Sixty-eighth session.

The ATP is an Agreement between States, and there is no overall enforcing authority. In practice, highway checks are carried out by Contracting Parties, and non-compliance may then result in legal...

This is the annual report of the Economic and Social Council submitted to the General Assembly on its 2016 session.

This is the annual report submitted to the General Assembly by the Economic and Social Council on its 2017 session.

Done at Geneva on 1 September 1970 and entered into force on 21 November 1976, the objectives of the Agreement on the International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs and on the Special Equipment to be...

The Agreement on the International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs and on the Special Equipment to be Used for such Carriage (ATP) is intended to ensure that deep-frozen and chilled foodstuffs are...