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As the United Nations moves beyond its 50th anniversary into the millenium, it is faced with a global system fraught with political and economic tensions that can no longer be handled with models that defined the organization when it was founded in 1945. A vision for a restructuring of the United Nations, this volume offers an insider's look at how the UN can respond more effectively to the challenges of the future in an age of globalization. The authors provide valuable policy recommendations involving a combination of political, will, relevance and efficiency in the coming years. Analyzing the roles of major UN functions such as the General Assembly, the Trusteeship Council, the Security Council and the Secretariat, the authors call for decentralization of the UN's activities and for building stronger relationships with established regional instituions and with Bretton Woods institutions.

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Guido de Marco has been the President of Malta since April 1999. During his political career, he served as Deputy Prim e Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malta and was also Leader of the House of Representatives. In 1990, Professor de M arco was elected President of the 45th Session of the United Nations General Assembly Michael Bartolo is the Ambassador of Malta to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva and Vienna. In addition to serving as principal advisor to Professor de Marco, when he was President of the United Nations General Assembly, Dr Bartolo, who recently retired from the United Nations, worked for 26 years in the Secretariat of the United Nations in New York.

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