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Article: Second chance for the United Nations: after the Cold War.
- Article from:
- The New Leader
- Article date:
- September 7, 1992
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THIRTEEN NEW United Nations members are taking part in the three-month 47th General Assembly, slated to run until December 20. That brings the total number of countries in the World Organization to 179--a dramatic contrast to the 51 "original" signers of its Charter in 1945. (At the rate countries are now fragmenting, by the year 2000 the UN is expected to have 200 members.)
Presiding from the high dais at the head of the impressive domed Assembly chamber will be Stoyan Ganev, the 37-year-old Foreign Minister of Bulgaria. He was nominated for election as Assembly President by the East European bloc, whose "turn" it is to fill the largely ceremonial, regionally ...