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The report also stated that the inhabitants of Yemen varied widely in terms of their complexion, “displaying every hue but black or near-black”.

Markets are changing and so is the political, economic and social complexion of the world. ECE countries need to renew their commitment to strengthen energy security by championing energy conservation and efficiency, expanding the fuel mix, diversifying sources of supply, including the development of indigenous supplies, building-up and maintaining strategic stocks as well as commercial stocks where warranted, and promoting research and development in ENERGY/2002/2 page 14 greening the fossil fuel energy-chain and in developing and commercialising new and renewable sources of energy. 70.

Jurisdiction over this issue was vested in the Security Council by the United Kations Charter which provides that matters which, by their nature, assume an international complexion or ;;i.:e rise to international repercilssions, especially if they threaten to impair relations between States or jeopardize international peace and security, cease to be matters of the domestic jursidiction of States.

It was not a matter of choosing between inflated requests for appropriations, which were not very realistic but which acted as a safety valve, and the inevitable year-end revision of the budget due to new requests for appropriations that totally altered the complexion of the budget originally adopted. The issue to be decided was whether to adopt a budget or to grant power to incur debts.

For those reasons, his delegation had voted at previous sessions for a draft resolution calling for the simultaneous admission of fourteen applicant States of varying political complexions, in the belief that such action would ensure a compromise on the interpreta- tion of Article 4 of the Charter.

The question of West Irian was still a political problem, linked with the liquidation of three centuries of colonialism. The fresh complexion which Australia and the Netherlands were trying to cast on the question by embarking on a policy of co-operation to keep the island under their dominion emphasized its essentially political nature.

That effort had been expanded to include the revision of the Constitution and the creation of a bicameral Parliament, thereby setting the stage for early general elections, which had resulted in a Government of a different complexion. Its formation, under the leadership of Mr.

Nolte’s position, since using the word “may” would change the entire complexion of the sentence. Mr. Park pointed out that the final sentence of paragraph (14) was almost identical to the final sentence of paragraph (13), except that it contained the formulation “depending on” instead of “if”.