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Text of the Treaties. Current Membership of the HRC. Officers of the Human Rights Council´s Sixth Cycle. H.E. Mr. Dilip SINHA (India), Vice-President Dilip Sinha, is Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations Office at Geneva since March 2012. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Sinha had been serving as Special Secretary for International Organizations and Environment Diplomacy in the Indian Ministry of External Affairs since 2010. He was India’s Ambassador to Greece from 2007 to 2010.

From 2005 to 2007, he was Joint Secretary, heading the Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran Division at the Ministry of External Affairs. A career diplomat, Mr. Mr. H.E. Kateřina Sequensová, Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the United Nations Office at Geneva since September 2011, joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic in 1999. Prior to her appointment in Geneva, Ms. Prior to commencing her diplomatic career, Ms. Ms. H.E. Alberto Pedro D’Alotto serves as Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations Office at Geneva since February 2012. Mr. H.E.

HRC President of the 6th Cycle. Baudelaire Ndong Ella, President of the Human Rights Council, Eight Cycle (2014) Baudelaire Ndong Ella has served as Permanent Representative of Gabon to the United Nations Office at Geneva since May 2011. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Ndong Ella had been serving as Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Gabon to the African Union since November 2009, a post he also held from July to October 2009. From 2007 to 2009, he acted as interim Chargé d’Affaires at Gabon’s Embassy in Ethiopia, the Permanent Mission to the African Union, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, and the United Nations Environment Programme. He served as First Councillor at the same embassy and missions from 2005 to 2008.

A career diplomat, Mr. Mr. Fixing the IMF. The leaders of the G20 will meet on April 2 in London. One item on their agenda will be to consider enhancing the International Monetary Fund’s role in international financial governance. This can only be successfully achieved if the IMF undergoes substantial reforms that require either difficult political compromises or amendments to the Fund’s Articles of Agreement, the formal international treaty that created the IMF and that has only been amended three times since the organization’s inception in 1946.

The three biggest problems in the international financial governance are coordination, scope, and legitimacy. Coordination Global financial governance currently involves a multiplicity of formally uncoordinated organizations and mechanisms. This arrangement is inefficient and results in an incoherent system, in which each key actor is motivated to assert jurisdiction that is broader than its actual mandate. Scope The scope of current financial regulatory regimes is deficient in two ways. Kofi Annan's Big New Idea: a Unified Syrian Government (Without Assad) - Global.