Annual Review of United Nations Affairs 2013/2014

Karl P. Sauvant is Resident Senior Fellow at the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment (VCC), a joint center of Columbia Law School and the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School and Guest Professor at Nankai University, China. Before that, he was the Founding Executive Director of the VCC and Director of UNCTAD's Investment Division. He is the author of, or responsible for, a substantial number of publications. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and an Honorary Fellow of the European International Business Academy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975.

Preface to the Annual Review of United Nations 2013/2014 by Joachim Muller and Karl P. Sauvant ; Contributors and Co-editors ; Calendar of Conferences and Meetings of the United Nations, September 17, 2013, to September 15, 2014 ; List of Abbreviations ; Chapter 1: General Assembly ; A. Commentary by Professor John R. Mathiason: The General Assembly-Planning the World's Future ; B. Regular Documentation ; 1. Statement to the General Assembly by Mr. John William Ashe, President of the General Assembly, following the opening of the sixty-eighth session, A/68/PV.1, September 17, 2013, pp. 1-3 ; 2. Statement to the General Assembly by Mr. John William Ashe, President of the General Assembly, on the closing of the sixty-eighth session, A/68/PV.109, September 15, 2014, pp. 9-12 ; 3. Agenda of the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly, A/68/251, September 20, 2013, and Add.1, 7 November 2013, Add.2, 7 March 2014, Add.3, 14 April 2014, and Add.4, 7 July 2014 ; C. Selected Documentation ; 1. Summary by the President of the General Assembly of the sixth High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development, 7 and 8 October 2013, New York, A/68/627, November 29, 2013 ; 2. Report of the Open Working Group of the General Assembly on Sustainable Development Goals, A/68/970, August 12, 2014 ; D. Resolutions Adopted by the General Assembly at Its Sixty-eighth Session ; Chapter 2: Security Council ; A. Commentary by Jacques Fomerand: The Security Council-Searching for a Consensus and Coping with New Threats, Laboriously ; B. Regular Documentation ; Report of the Security Council, 1 August 2013-31 July 2014, Official Records of the General Assembly (Supplement No. 2), A/69/2, 2014 ; C. Selected Documentation of the Security Council ; 1. Letter dated 14 January 2013 from the Charge d'affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General [urging the Security Council to refer the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic to the International Criminal Court], A/67/694-S/2013/19, January 16, 2013 ; 2. Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in the Central African Republic, S/2013/470, August 5, 2013 ; 3. Report of the United Nations Mission to Investigate Allegations of the Use of Chemical Weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic on the alleged use of chemical weapons in the Ghouta area of Damascus on 21 August 2013, A/67/997-S/2013/553, September 16, 2013 ; 4. Letter dated 16 September 2013 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council [with Findings and recommendations of the United Nations multidisciplinary mission to the Central African Republic, 21-26 August 2013], S/2013/557, September 16, 2013 ; 5. Letter dated 19 September 2013 from the Permanent Representatives of the Russian Federation and the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General [with Framework for elimination of Syrian chemical weapons], A/68/398-S/2013/565, September 24, 2013 ; 6. Letter dated 31 December 2013 from the Chair of the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities addressed to the President of the Security Council [with Report of the Committee], S/2013/792, December 31, 2013 ; 7. Australia, France, Jordan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Republic of Korea, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America: draft resolution [on Syria], S/2014/115, February 22, 2014 ; 8. Report of the Secretary-General on the Central African Republic submitted pursuant to paragraph 48 of Security Council resolution 2127 (2013), S/2014/142, March 3, 2014 ; 9. Report of the Security Council mission to Mali, 1-3 February 2014, S/2014/173, March 11, 2014 ; 10. Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of Security Council resolution 2139 (2014) [on Syria], S/2014/208, March 24, 2014 ; 11. Report of the Security Council mission to the Demo