Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change of heart came just in time for the beleaguered organization on Manhattan's East River. The U.S. is supposed to pay 25% of the U.N.'s general operating revenues. Since Washington began withholding funds, the organization has been dangerously strapped for cash. In July U.N. Secretary- General Javier Perez de Cuellar met with Ronald Reagan to explain that the U.N. could run out of money as early as November...
...Administration's endorsement, which came only days before this week's opening of the 43rd annual U.N. General Assembly session, was viewed cynically in some circles. President Reagan is slated to make his final address to the General Assembly on Sept. 26; it was quickly noted that handing over large amounts of cash will undoubtedly warm his reception. The Administration's new embrace of the U.N., however, was hardly unqualified. Fitzwater said that reform of the organization is "incomplete," before adding that "the progress is striking...
...unprecedented new spate of diplomacy among the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. In January 1987, U.N. diplomats told TIME, ambassadors representing the five -- Britain, China, France, the U.S. and the Soviet Union -- began a series of regular private conclaves at the behest of the Secretary-General...
...informal meetings offered a regular channel for dealing with thorny issues while avoiding the posturing of public U.N. sessions. The consensus achieved at the sessions has often strengthened Perez de Cuellar's mediation efforts. Says a high U.N. official: "The collaboration of the five has helped the Secretary-General significantly...
...more active diplomacy. Richard Gardner, a former U.S. State Department official and now a professor of international law at Columbia University, returned last week from a Moscow visit where officials outlined Gorbachev's ideas in detail. Among them: setting up a hotline between the Secretary-General and the capitals of the five permanent Security Council members for speedy consultations; a commitment by the Big Five to submit certain kinds of disputes -- so far unspecified -- to the U.N.-sponsored World Court in the Hague; a conference by 1991 to devise a global strategy for environmental protection...