I. Прочитайте и устно переведите текстUnited Nations Britain is fully committed to the principles of the United Nations and its Charter, and believes that all member states should ensure that the organisation functions as effectively as possible to maintain peace, assist developing countries and protect human rights and freedom. Britain is the sixth largest contributor to the UN budget, giving about $49.5 million in 1992. In January 1992 the British Prime Minister convened a special meeting of the Security Council in order to reaffirm the UN ' s central role in strengthening international order and world peace. Britain provides help for UN peacekeepingforcesoperating in Cyprus, Lebanon, Cambodia andonthe Iraq-Kuwait border. It is also sending 2,400 troops and engineers to help UN humanitarian efforts in the former Yugoslavia, inaddition tomedical support for the 14,500-strong UNProtectionForce now operating there. Human rights Britain has consistently supported UN efforts to promote human rights through the establishment of internationally accepted standards as laid down, for example, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in two International Covenants on economic, social and political rights. Britain believes that violations of human rights are matters of international concern and that protests about them do not constitute interference in another state's internal affairs. It is also a party to other international human rights conventions, including those on the elimination of racial and sex discrimination, the prevention of genocide, and die rights of the child.
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