Word: thant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem is serious,"said U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, as the organization's financial crisis that has hamstrung the 19th Assembly dragged into still another week. The U.N., he had only $14.6 million cash on hand needed $9,000,000 a month simply to meet payrolls around the world and normal operating expenses. As for accounts payable, some $136 million in overdue assessments were on the U.N.'s books, and U Thant issued for the first time the names of the 16 delinquents: Russia and eight other Communist nations, France, Belgium, Haiti, Paraguay, South Africa, Yemen and Bolivia...
...Thant of the U.N.-the man entrusted with the toughest job on earth: keeping the peace of the world in the '60s of the 20th century...
Secretary-General U Thant announced the truce terms: "Issues other than those that can be disposed of without objection will not be raised." In short, the Assembly agreed for the present not to handle anything of importance and to avoid taking any votes, while the U.S. postponed a formal demand to deprive Russia of its Assembly vote (under Article 19 of the Charter) for nonpayment of dues on the U.N. peacekeeping operations in the Congo and Suez. While the Assembly is in its limbo of talking without voting, the U.S. and Russia are having another go at working...
...Meanwhile, the Assembly conducted business by acclamation in order to avoid voting. It admitted three new nations-Malta, Malawi and Zambia-and elected its first black African president. Ghana's Ambassador Alex Quaison-Sackey, 40, festively garbed in orange and yellow tribal robes, took the chair alongside U Thant and Indian Under Secretary C. V. Narasimhan, symbolizing the U.N.'s ever-increasing Afro-Asian cast...
...good offices committee," proposed a voluntary all-purpose peacekeeping fund so that Russia would not have to contribute directly to operations it considered illegal. The U.S. has offered a variety of minor concessions to Russian pride. So far, Russia's position has not changed. But Secretary-General U Thant was working hard to avoid a showdown, proposed delaying the issue. Most delegates still managed to persuade themselves that the clash would somehow be avoided. "There has to be a settlement," said Liberia's pro-U.S. Ambassador Nathan Barnes. "I just can't believe either...