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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 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. 

United Nations General Assembly. Report of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation. Official Records of the General Assembly. Thirteenth Session. Supplement NO. 17... 

United Nations, General Assembly Resolution 217 A (111) of 10. (1948, December 10). Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Retrieved from http //www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3ae6b3712c.html... 

United Nations General Assembly. (2001). Declaration of commitment on HIV/AIDS. Retrieved from http //www.unaids.org/en/media/ unaids/contentassets/dataimport/publications/irc-pub03/aidsde claration en.pdf... 

UNAIDS Diversity and Inclusion Policy 512, 514, 516 United Nations 81, 512 United Nations Foundation 507 United Nations General Assembly ... 

Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, General Assembly resolution 2625 (XXV) of 24 October 1970 (1970 Friendly Relations Declaration). 

See UNMICT, Press Release, President Meron Presents Second Annual Report to the United Nations General Assembly (14 October 2014), http //www.unmict.org/en/news/president-meron-presents-second-annual-report-united-nations-general-assembly (accessed 4 March 2015) The report can be found here http //www.unmict.org/sites/default/files/documents/140801-annual-report en.pdf (accessed 4 March 2015). 

United Nations General Assembly, Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Philip Alston, A/HRC/14/24/Add.6 (UN, New York, 2010)... 

United Nations General Assembly, Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (New York United Nations Office of Public Information, 1961). 

United Nations General Assembly. (1987). Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development Our Common Future Chapter 2 Transmitted to the General Assembly as an Annex to document A/42/427. Available at http //www.un-documents.net/ocf-02.htm. 

Source Report of the Secretary-General on Chemical and Bacteriological (Biological) Weapons and the Effects of Their Possible Use United Nations General Assembly, AH515,1 July 1969, p.57. 

S(tockholm) I(nternational) P(eace) R(esearch) I(nstitute), The Problem of Chemical and Biological Warfare, vol. 2, CB Weapons Today (Stockholm Almqvist Wiksell, 1973) pp. 37-40, 64-72, 124-5 United Nations General Assembly, Report of the Secretary-General on Chemical and Bacteriological (Biological) Weapons and the Effects of Their Possible Use, A/7575 (1 July 1969) p. 8. 

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