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In memory of former the WMO Secretary-General Professor Godwin Patrick Olu Obasi

Professor Obasi, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), from 1 January 1984 to 31 December 2003 passed away on 3 March in Abuja, Nigeria. Professor Obasi, aged 74, held a B.Sc (Honors) degree in Mathematics and Physics from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, a Master of Science degree and a Doctorate in meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. He won the Carl Tossby Award for the best doctoral degree thesis. Following his graduation, Professor Obasi joined the…

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Shashi Tharoor : Reflections on a changing United Nations

SHASHI ON SUNDAY (1 April 2007) April Fool’s Day 2007 is actually a rather serious day for your columnist. Yesterday I ended my career as an international civil servant, just one month shy of what would have been 29 years at the United Nations. Today is the first day of the rest of my life, and yet I can’t help looking back a bit at the Organization I’ve just left behind. I joined the UN in 1978 as an…

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