- Author Name : J. G. Starke
Intergovernmental Experts to Review the Efficiency of the Administrativg and Financial Functioning of the United Nations, Proposals to expand the role of the United Nations Secretary-General, e.g. through a system unde his control for fact-finding, and by providing him with the assistance g military advisers, have been noted, while in the sphere of United Nation, peacekeeping. reference was made to the establishment in August 1988 gy the United Nations lran-iraq Military Observer Group (UNIMOG) to monitor, the cease-fire in the lran-lraq War along the 1,200-kilometre frontier between the two countries.
Certain new and notable international multilateral Conventions are the subject of treatment or reference throughout the text of this book. These include the International Convention against Torture and Other Crue, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment and Punishment. opened for signature on 10 December, 1984, the Convention of 11 October, 1985 establishing the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, the Convention of March 1985 for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Protocol thereto singed on 16 September, 1987 and the Convention of 2 June, 1988 for the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities.
Some opinions expressed in previous editions of this book have been revised or reformulated.