Since its return to democracy in 1990,Chile has been an active participant in the regional and international arena. Chile assumed a two-year non-permanent position on the UN Security Council in January 2003 and was re-elected to the council in October 2013. It is also an active member of the UN family of agencies,serving as a member of the Commission on Human Rights and participating in UN peacekeeping activities. Chile hosted the second Summit of the Americas in 1998,was the chair of the Rio Group in 2001,hosted the Defense Ministerial of the Americas in 2002,and the APEC summit and related meetings in 2004. In 2005 it hosted the Community of Democracies ministerial conference. An associate member of Mercosur and a full member of APEC. The OECD agreed to invite Chile to be among four countries to open discussions in becoming an official member. Chile has been an important actor on international economic issues and hemispheric free trade. The Chilean Government has diplomatic relations with most countries.
The Caribbean Community is an intergovernmental organization that is a political and economic union of 15 member states throughout the Caribbean having primary objectives to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members,to ensure that the benefits of integration are equitably shared,and to coordinate foreign policy. The organisation was established in 1973 with the signing of the Treaty of Chaguaramas by its four founding members. Its major activities involve coordinating economic policies and development planning;devising and instituting special projects for the less-developed countries within its jurisdiction;operating as a regional single market for many of its members;and handling regional trade disputes. The secretariat headquarters is in Georgetown,Guyana. CARICOM is an official United Nations Observer beneficiary.
Theo-Ben Gurirab was a Namibian politician who served in various senior government positions. He served as the second Prime Minister of Namibia from 28 August 2002 to 20 March 2005,following the demotion and subsequent resignation of Hage Geingob. Previously he was the country's first Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1990 to 2002,and was President of the United Nations General Assembly from 1999 to 2000. He was Speaker of the National Assembly of Namibia from 2005 to 2015,when he was replaced by Peter Katjavivi. Gurirab ultimately resigned from politics in 2015.
The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States is an inter-governmental organisation dedicated to economic harmonisation and integration,protection of human and legal rights,and the encouragement of good governance between countries and territories in the Eastern Caribbean. It also performs the role of spreading responsibility and liability in the event of natural disaster.
Denis Allen Hayes is an environmental advocate and an advocate for solar power. He rose to prominence in 1970 as the coordinator for the first Earth Day.
The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs is a professional school of international affairs at Carleton University that was founded in 1965. The school is based at Richcraft Hall on Carleton's campus in Ottawa,Ontario,Canada. Students,alumni and faculty of NPSIA are referred to as 'NPSIAns'.
The Supreme Council is the unicameral Parliament of the Kyrgyz Republic. It was known as the Supreme Soviet of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic until 1991.
Barton David Gellman is an American author known for his reports on September 11 attacks,on Dick Cheney's vice presidency and on the global surveillance disclosure. Beginning in June 2013,he authored The Washington Post's coverage of the U.S. National Security Agency,based on top secret documents provided to him by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden. He published a book for Penguin Press on the rise of the surveillance-industrial state in May 2020.
Matthew Joseph Hill is an American talk show host,businessman,and politician who served as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 2005 to 2021.
Jonathan Brian Denis,is a Canadian politician and lawyer. On May 9,2012,he was named Solicitor General,Attorney General,and Minister of Justice for the province of Alberta. He represented the constituency of Calgary-Acadia as a Progressive Conservative in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 2008 until 2015.
Government Law College,Thiruvananthapuram also known as GLC Trivandrum is one of the institutions imparting graduate and post graduate legal education in India. Affiliated to the University of Kerala,it is the second law college in Kerala and one of the oldest law colleges in India. It was established in 1875 by the then Maharajah of the erstwhile Princely State of Travancore. Notable alumni of the college including Judges of Supreme Court of India such as Justice Fathima Beevi,judges of High Courts,politicians,and academicians such as N. R. Madhava Menon.
David Huebner is an international arbitrator based in Southern California. He previously served as the United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. He was the first openly gay ambassador in the Obama administration and the third openly gay ambassador in United States history. His tenure was marked by significant improvement in bilateral relations,with commentators observing that relations are stronger and closer than they have been in decades. Called an “excellent public face for the United States,”he has been widely praised as a successful Ambassador including for his accessible,inclusive approach,his emphasis on students and future leaders,and the innovative restructuring of his Embassies around social media and other nontraditional tools and approaches of diplomacy. Before being appointed Ambassador he worked as an international lawyer in Los Angeles,Shanghai,and New York City,specializing in international arbitration and mediation. He is licensed as an attorney in California,New York,and in the District of Columbia,and as a solicitor in England and Wales.
United Nations Slavery Memorial,officially known as The Permanent Memorial at the United Nations in Honour of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade,is an installation at the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City intended as a permanent reminder of the long-lasting effects of slavery and the slave trade.
CARIPASS is a voluntary travel card programme that will provide secure and simple border crossings for Caribbean Community (CARICOM) citizens and some legal residents of CARICOM nations. The CARIPASS initiative is coordinated by the Implementation Agency for Crime and Security,and seeks to provide standardised border control facilities within participating Caribbean communities.
Ion Jinga is a Romanian diplomat working in the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1992. Between 9 April 2003 and 7 March 2008 he served as the Romanian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium and between 7 March 2008 and 4 August 2015 he held the position of Ambassador of Romania to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. On 4 August 2015,he started his term as Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary,Permanent Representative of Romania to the United Nations in New York. He and his wife Daniela have one daughter,Daria.
Sir Ronald Michael Sanders is an Antiguan Barbudan diplomat,academic former broadcast-journalist,and the current Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States and to the Organization of American States since 2015. He is also the non-resident High Commissioner to Canada since 2017. He served twice as Antigua's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom as well as ambassador and negotiator to the World Trade Organization (WTO) (1997–2004). He was a member and Rapporteur of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group (2010–2011) that produced a seminal report entitled,A Commonwealth of the People:Time for Urgent Reform that laid out a plan of action to make the Commonwealth effective and relevant. He was Antigua and Barbuda's nominee to be secretary general of the Commonwealth at the election held at the 2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. He is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies,University of London,and is a speaker at conventions and conferences on global financial services issues and on Caribbean states in the political-economy of the Americas and the Commonwealth.
Perry Lee Holloway is an American diplomat and was the former Ambassador to the Cooperative Republic of Guyana.
The Seventy-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly was the session of the United Nations General Assembly which ran from 16 September 2020 to 15 September 2021. The President for the session was Volkan Bozkır,who stated that the session's theme was "The future we want,the United Nations we need;reaffirming our collective commitment to multilateralism".
