U.N. General Assembly

Globally, apart from many national frameworks, various international initiatives have been founded, aimed at the prevention of, and coping with, possible bioterrorism scenarios. In 2006, the U.N. General Assembly released its new counterterrorism strategy. It recommends development of a biological incidents database... 

Excerpts from Bush s Speech at the Opening of the U.N. General Assembly , The New York Times, 26 September 1989, p.A16. 

At Lake Success, the United Nations was frantically seeking to find some means of discharging its legal and moral responsibility for the future of Palestine, a responsibility which would become actual instead of theoretic on May 15 when the British mandate would come to an end. The United States had just edged away from its former support of the partition resolution of the General Assembly, and was proposing a temporary U.N, trusteeship for Palestine. 

Now I found Azzam insisting that in any U.N. action, it be recognized that it was not in preparation for partition — in other words, partition was to be ruled out in advance. This was directly opposed to the Jewish view, frequently reiterated by Ben Gurion and other leaders We will accept any reasonable U.N. decision, provided it recognizes the existence of the Jewish state as provided in the General Assembly s resolution on partition. ... 

U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, in the General Assembly, laid emphasis on the hazardous conjunction of bioterrorism and biotechnology ... 

Fig. 9.6, Sectional view of the Grand Gulf boiling water reactor (courtesy of General Electric Company and Nuclear Engineering International). A, Vent and head spray B, steam dryer C, steam outlet D, core spray outlet E, steam separators F, feedwater inlet G, feedwater sparger H, L.P. coolant injection inlet J, core spray pipe K, core spray sparger L, top guide M, jet pump N, core shroud O, fuel assemblies P, control blade Q, core plate R, jet pump water inlet S, recirculation water outlet T, vessel support skirt U, control rod drives V, in-core flux monitor.

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