Sentences with phrase «un says»

Frankly, given that most of the other countries in the world (i) are either governed by their aboriginal populations, (ii) have succesfully killed them off or assimilated them into their broader population, or (iii) will just ignore anything the UN says anyhow, I'm not too inclined too give much weight to what they have to say on the issue.

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You've seen these horrific scenarios everywhere, based purely on catastrophic hypotheticals that dramatically exaggerate even what the UN says.

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The money paid for the block equates to one and a half times what the UN says is needed to respond to the country's current famine crisis.

The Arctic climate is changing so quickly that science can barely keep track of what is happening and predict the global consequences, the UN says.

The UN says «As one of the major contributors of carbon emissions, responsible businesses and organisations need to measure, reduce and offset their emissions.»

Aside from money to fight climate change, the UN says it needs more than $ 20bn for humanitarian funding in 2016 — a sixfold increase on the figure 10 years ago.

Some would just question anything the UN says needs doing on principle, but you even support some stuff.

Headline to the story says, «Ozone layer shows first sign of recovery, UN says.»

The UN says warming or cooling, in Celsius degrees, is 3.7 to 5.7 times the logarithm of the proportionate change.

This film has the strongest dramatic story, involving a teacher (Hugh Dancy) and a Catholic priest (John Hurt) who have to decide to flee when the UN says so or stay behind.

A third of food is wasted, making it third - biggest carbon emitter, UN says ROME, Sept 11 (Reuters)-- The food the world wastes accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than any country except for China and the United States, the United Nations said in a report on Wednesday... http://www.pointcarbon.com/news/reutersnews/1.2564792

It also breaches the United Nations» safe limit of 2C, beyond which the UN says dangerous climate change can be expected.

The UN says world population will still be rising in 2100.

Whoever pays, the UN says $ 1 billion will be needed to stop the epidemic, an order of magnitude more than the World Health Organization estimated in July.

A spokesperson for the German mission to the UN says his country does not necessarily disagree with the stronger ban — indeed, German law bans all cloning — but he believes a more limited ban would win more immediate support.

Children in South Sudan have been forced to watch their mothers being raped and killed, the UN says.

The suspension was announced on Tuesday by Goodluck Jonathan, the Nigerian president and chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), as President Laurent Gbagbo continued to ignore calls and pressure to step down following an election the UN says he lost.

About 270,000 Rohingya Muslims have sought shelter in Bangladesh since violence erupted in Myanmar two weeks ago, the UN says.

North Korean leader Kim Jong - un says he has suspended all missile tests and will shut down a nuclear test site.

The calculations you provide show how much the UN says America should pay.

The UN says one billion dollars is needed to fight Ebola, with the virus claiming nearly 2,500 lives so far, mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

The military operation was launched by Israel on 8 July in an attempt to halt rocket attacks on the country but the UN says the majority of the people dead are innocent civilians.

The 16 Rohingya - 12 men, two women and two young girls - had traveled to Dhaka from Cox's Bazar, the district bordering Burma where refugee camps are overflowing with more than 620,000 Rohingya who have fled what the UN says is a campaign of ethnic cleansing by Burma's military.

While the UN says that her stint as an Ambassador was meant to be short, it also comes in response to a petition asking that she be removed.

North Korean leader Kim Jong - un said he strongly supports denuclearization during a rare meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

«The conflict has become increasingly sectarian, with the conduct of the parties becoming significantly more radicalized and militarized,» the UN said earlier this year.

Ambassador Stevenson, speaking to the Committee One of the UN said of communications satellites: «This fundamental breakthrough in communication could affect the lives of people everywhere.

as was clearly specified by Netanyahu many times in his speech at the UN saying again and again that this is a «Jewish» state.)

2016 is the UN's International Year of Pulses, and the UN say eating more pulses such as chick peas, lentils and dried peas could help address global food issues.

What does the UN say?

The UN said we simply can't make these decisions as they are of a political nature and have to be made by the Timorese.

Meanwhile the Qatari ambassador to the UN said that the resolution, whose text had been fought over by France and the US, was weighted towards favouring the Israelis.

The UN said it was evaluating humanitarian needs in the country and that «contingency plans are being put in place to mitigate any potential outbreak of waterborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid and diarrhoea», according to spokesman Stephane Dujarric.

The UN said on Saturday that suspension of humanitarian operations in Rann, Borno, on March 2 was still in force.

«A projected 5.1 million people will face serious food shortages as the conflict and risk of unexploded improvised devices prevented farmers planting for a third year in a row, causing a major food crisis,» the UN said on December 2.

Russia's 2010 Copenhagen Accord pledge to the UN said that it would allow for «appropriate accounting» of the forest sector.

22 years ago the UN said we had only 10 years to take global warming action.

Back in 1990, the head of the UN said our planet was ailing.

Russia's 2010 Copenhagen Accord pledge to the UN said that it would allow for «appropriate accounting» of the forest sector.

The UN said it will use Tuesday's gathering to press world leaders to do more: to cut more carbon and, for the rich countries, put up more cash to help poor countries cope with climate change.

A meeting of all parties scheduled to start at 8:30 a.m. was postponed to the afternoon the UN said.

The UN said that its pledges are insufficient.

The price rises are a result of record oil prices, US farmers switching out of cereals to grow biofuel crops, extreme weather and growing demand from countries India and China, the UN said yesterday.

Not exact matches

US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said new sanctions against Russia are coming Monday.

In a statement Sunday, Bloomberg's charity Bloomberg Philanthropies said the $ 4.5 million would go towards the operations of the UN Climate Change Secretariat.

Russia's ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, urged the US on Thursday to avoid military action, saying the «immediate priority is to avert the danger of war.»