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From: Harvard International Review | Date: June 22, 1996 | Copyright information

The United Nations in its Second Half-Century is the product of a study organized, convened, and supported by the Ford Foundation in 1993 at request of Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the Secretary-General of the United Nations. That study, conducted by the Independent Working Group on the Future of the United Nations, which was cochaired by former Prime Minister of Pakistan Moeen Qureshi and former President of the Federal Republic of Germany Richard von Weizsacher, has as its overriding go...

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