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Polska w Organizacji Narodów Zjednoczonych
Poland in the United Nations Organization

Author(s): Stanisław L. Stebelski
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: Convention on Prohibition or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons; prevention of epidemics of HIV/AIDS;

Summary/Abstract: 2005 marked the 60th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations and of Poland’s membership thereof. It provided an excellent opportunity to hold a summit meeting of representatives of the member states and to review the Organization’s functioning. On 27 January, the anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the UN General Assembly commemorated for the first time the Day of the Holocaust, introduced by Israel and Poland. On 6 May a special session of the UN General Assembly was held, devoted to the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe.

  • Issue Year: 2006
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 187-204
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish
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