Annual Review of United Nations Affairs 2011/2012

Joachim Müller is the Director for Resource Management at the World Meteorological Organization and has also written several prominent books on UN matters, including the multi-volume work Reforming the United Nations. He was previously Controller at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and worked in the financial and budgetary area of the UN Secretariat, New York, and the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Vienna.Karl P. Sauvant is Resident Senior Fellow and former Founding Executive Director of the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School and Guest Professor at Nankai University, China. Before that, he was Director of UNCTAD's Investment Division. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and an Honorary Fellow of the European International Business Academy.

• FOREWORD: GLOBAL SOLUTIONS FOR GLOBAL PROBLEMS BY LORD MARK MALLOCH BROWN KCMG; PREFACE: THE ANNUAL REVIEW OF UNITED NATIONS 2011/2012 BY JOACHIM MULLER AND KARL P. SAUVANT; CONTRIBUTORS AND CO-EDITORS; CALENDAR OF CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS OF THE UNITED NATIONS, 13 SEPTEMBER 2011 TO 17 SEPTEMBER 2012; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER 1: GENERAL ASSEMBLY, SIXTY-SIXTH SESSION; A. COMMENTARY BY JOHN R. MATHIASON: THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY-THE FUTURE WE WANT; B. DOCUMENTS; 1. STATEMENT TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY BY MR. NASSIR ABDULAZIZ AL-NASSER, PRESIDENT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, FOLLOWING THE OPENING OF THE SIXTY-SIXTH SESSION, A/66/PV1, 13 SEPTEMBER 2011; 2. AGENDA OF THE SIXTY-SIXTH SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, A/66/251, 16 SEPTEMBER 2011, ADD.1, 17 OCTOBER 2011 AND ADD.2, 9 NOVEMBER 2011; 3. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AT ITS SIXTY-SIXTH SESSION; CHAPTER 2: SECURITY COUNCIL; A. COMMENTARY BY TAPIO KANNINEN: THE SECURITY COUNCIL-COPING WITH NEW SECURITY CHALLENGES; B. DOCUMENTS; 1. REPORT OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL, 1 AUGUST 2011-31 JULY 2012, A/67/2 (SUPPLEMENT NO. 2), 2012; 2. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE SECURITY COUNCIL; 3. STATEMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL; CHAPTER 3: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL; A. COMMENTARY BY JOHAN SCHOLVINCK: THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL-THE NEED FOR A RADICAL OVERHAUL; B. DOCUMENTS; 1. REPORT OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL FOR 2012, A/67/3 (SUPPLEMENT NO. 3), 21 AUGUST 2011; 2. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL (ECOSOC); 3. MINISTERIAL DECLARATION ADOPTED BY THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL, E/2012/L.10, 6 JULY 2012; CHAPTER 4: INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE; A. COMMENTARY BY ALEXANDER K.A. GREENAWALT: THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS-INTERNATIONAL LAW, STATE SOVEREIGNTY AND THE INDIVIDUAL; B. DOCUMENTS: REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE, 1 AUGUST 2011-31 JULY 2012, A/67/4 (SUPPLEMENT NO. 4), 2012; CHAPTER 5: SECRETARIAT: ANNUAL REPORTS; A. COMMENTARY BY KHALIL A. HAMDANI THE SECRETARIAT-BRAVING THE POLITICAL IMPASSE; B. DOCUMENTS; 1. UNITED NATIONS: REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL ON THE WORK OF THE ORGANIZATION FOR 2011/12, A/67/1 (SUPPLEMENT NO. 1), 2012; 2. ANNUAL OVERVIEW REPORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM CHIEF EXECUTIVES BOARD FOR COORDINATION FOR 2011/12, E/2012/67, 3 MAY 2012; 3. UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND: ANNUAL REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR 2011, E/2012/6, 30 NOVEMBER 2011; 4. UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME, UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND AND UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR PROJECT SERVICES: JOINT ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATOR OF UNDP AND OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS OF UNFPA AND UNOPS FOR 2011, E/2012/5, 14 NOVEMBER 2011; 5. UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: REPORT OF THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR 2011/12, A/67/36 (SUPPLEMENT NO. 36), 2012; 6. UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES: REPORT OF THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR 2011/12, A/67/12 (SUPPLEMENT NO. 12), 2012; 7. UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES IN THE NEAR EAST: REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER-GENERAL FOR 2011, A/67/13 (SUPPLEMENT NO. 13), 2012; 8. WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME: ANNUAL REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR 2011, E/2012/14, 29 FEBRUARY 2012; 9. ACTIVITIES OF THE OFFICE OF INTERNAL OVERSIGHT SERVICES FOR THE PERIOD FROM 1 JULY 2011 TO 30 JUNE 2012, A/67/297 (PART I), 10 AUGUST 2012; CHAPTER 6: SELECTED PEACEKEEPING, PEACE-BUILDING AND POLITICAL MISSIONS: PROGRESS REPORTS; A. COMMENTARY BY JAMES V. ARBUCKLE: PEACEKEEPING, PEACE-BUILDING AND POLITICAL MISSIONS-THE CUP HALF FULL; B. DOCUMENTS; 1. AFGHANISTAN; 2. CONGO; 3. HAITI; 4. IRAQ; 5. LIBYA; 6. MIDDLE EAST; 7. SOMALIA; 8. SUDAN AND SOUTH SUDAN; 9. WEST AFRICA