UNSPECIAL No 620 – July-August / Juillet-Août 2003

EDITORIAL  
4 millions de $ perdus

$ 4 million wasted

INTERVIEW

After 35 years at the UN: au revoir

ROSES & CACTUS

PERSONNEL

Le fonds de pension en 6 tableaux 
Last chance, last call?
HRM reform in the UN broadbanding:
An idea whose time has passed

The ICSC 
Women in operations
CCISUA’S XVIIIth General Assembly
Obituaire: Giles Macnair Whitcomb
Réunion sur les pensions

SERVICES

Modernisation des salles de conférences - Côté jardin
Renovation of the Conference rooms – Garden side
Did you know that
Tech News: Mais… pourquoi centraliser?

GLOBE

The G-8 Summits – the issue at stake is that of fairness and justice
Collegium international éthique 
Altermondialistes et plurilinguisme
St Petersburg: History, Glory and Mystery
Europa: conceptions pour une paix éternelle  
Meditations: How the path was forged

LETTRES

DERNIERE MINUTE

Le Secrétaire général participe à la collecte

FEUILLETON

Mélanie Mercier née Markowitz (5)
(French)

(English)

ARTS

Ex Tempore
Club de musique


 

 

Le numéro XIII d’Ex Tempore est tiré ; il faut le lire…

Ex Tempore

Alfredo de Zayas, retraité, ONUG

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