United Nations opinion

Furthermore, the Jokit Expert Committee on Food Additives (107) (fECFA) of the WHO and EAO of the United Nations issued the evaluation of the safety, statkig that on the basis of the available data, the total dietary kitake of glutamates arising from thek use at the levels necessary to achieve the desked technological effect and from thek acceptable background ki food does not, ki the opinion of the committee, represent a ha2ard to health. 

The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. 

FIGURE 9.2 Representation of blacks in the United States vs. doctorate programs in chemistry, 1990 to 2000. SOURCE NSF/NIH/NEH/USED/USDA/NASA, Survey of Earned Doctorates, Doctorates Awarded to U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents by Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Fine Field 1990-2000, Table 3, National Opinion Research Center, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2000 and Population Estimates Program, U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, DC, December, 2000. 

The United Nations takes note of Article XIV, paragraph 5, of the Convention, which empowers the Conference of the States Parties or the Executive Coimcil of the OPCW, subject to authorisation from the General Assembly of the United Nations, to request the International Court of Justice to give an advisory opinion on any legal question(s) arising from within the scope of activities of the OPCW, apart from any question(s) concerning the mutual relationship between the OPCW and the United Nations. 

The United Nations and the OPCW agree that each such request for an advisory opinion shall first be submitted to the General Assembly, which will decide upon the request in accordance with Article 96 of the Charter. 

International Court of Justice (1962) Certain Expenses of the United Nations Advisory Opinion of 20 July 1962 I.C.J. Reports 1962, p. 151... 

There is no single source of authority or legitimacy. . . [T]he United Nations is not yet at the point where it alone can decide what is legitimate and what is not. Well then, who decides Is it the United States or some other government The answer is that you have to look at the case at hand and you have to try to make a case in the court of international public opinion. . . [Y]ou have to base your actions on norms. 

Oppenheimer s hopes for putting the bomb under the control of the United Nations were severely disappointed. I am puzzled by a recent suggestion by Lawrence Krauss that he successfully guided US atomic policy. See http //www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/opinion/deafness-at-doomsday.html, accessed January 18,2013. 

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