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Any national society whose primary activity is in information may apply to become a full member of IFIP, although full membership is restricted to one society per country. Full members are entitled to vote at the annual General Assembly, National societies preferring a less committed involvement may apply for associate or corresponding membership. Associate members enjoy the same benefits as full members, but without voting rights. Corresponding members are not represented in IFIP bodies. Affiliated membership is open to non-national societies, and individual and honorary membership schemes are also offered. 

To address the technology, waste, safety and security issues concerning nuclear energy, the UN established the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 1957, a few years after U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower s famous Atoms for Peace speech before the United Nations General Assembly. 

United Nations (1987). General Assembly Resolution 42/187. December 11,1987. Report of the world commission on environment and development, http //www.un.org/docu-ments/ga/res/42/ares42-187.htm. (accessed 01.09.10). 

UNSCEAR United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiations Sources and Biological Effects, Report to the General Assembly, Annex D, United Nations, New York (1982). 

Members of the Commission were either Titular Members (TM), Associate Members (AM), or National Representatives (NR). Until and including 1989, commission memberships commenced and terminated (in odd-numbered years) immediately following a biennial lUPAC General Assembly from 1991 they commenced (in even-numbered years) on U January immediately following a General Assembly and terminated at the end of the (odd-numbered) year of a General Assembly. CC denotes Commission Chairman and CS Commission Secretary. 

United Nations General Assembly Resolution 55/25, United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime. Annex I, Article 2, Subsection A, 8 January 2001. 

United Nations (1992) Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Annex I, Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, A/CONE151/26 (Vol. I), Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992, United Nations General Assembly, New York... 

Nevertheless, it was events in Kurdistan in particular which fully illustrated both the ambiguity of what was banned and the absence of verification measures under the Geneva Protocol. Only use of chemical weapons was banned, not possession. In 1972 the United Nations General Assembly had adopted the Convention of the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Biological Weapons. Chemical weapons fell outside this convention and by 1988 it became clear that a chemical weapons treaty was urgently needed to place effective constraints on the proliferation of these weapons worldwide. 

See Verification and the United Nations The Role of the Organization in Multilateral Arms Limitations and Disarmament Agreements (New York United Nations, 1991), pp. 10-15 Michael J. Sheehan, Arms Control Theory and Practice (Oxford Blackwell, 1988), p. 124. See also Special Report of the Disarmament Commission to the General Assembly at Its Third Special Session Devoted to Disarmament, UN Doc. A/S-15/3, 1 January 1988, p. 50, para. 11. 

In setting the UN Millennium Development Goals, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan identified the CWC as one of the 25 core treaties reflecting the fundamental purposes of the United Nations. In his address on 1 October 2001 to the General Assembly s special debate on measures to eliminate international terrorism, the Secretary-General also emphasized the need to redouble efforts to ensure universality, verification and... 

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