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Cypriot international diplomat
Benon Vahe Sevan (born December 18, 1937 Nicosia, Cyprus) was the head of the United Nations' Oil-for-Food Programme, established in 1996 and charged with
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Programme headed by the United Nations
after the name of Benon Sevan, executive director of the Oil-for-Food Programme, appeared on the Iraqi Oil Ministry's documents. Sevan received vouchers
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UN Secretary-General from 1997 to 2006
with Benon Sevan, an Armenian-Cypriot national who had worked for the UN for about 40 years. Appointed by Annan to the Oil-For-Food role, Sevan repeatedly
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Secretary-General. In 2005, Secretary-General Kofi Annan waived the immunity of Benon Sevan, Aleksandr Yakovlev, and Vladimir Kuznetsov in relation to the Oil-for-Food
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Topics referred to by the same term
Province, Iran Benon Sevan (born 1937), Cypriot U.N. official Sevda Sevan (1945–2009), Armenian-Bulgarian writer and ambassador Sevan Kirder (born 1980)
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Capital of Cyprus and Northern Cyprus
former President of the House of Representatives of Cyprus (2008–2011) Benon Sevan, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations (1992–2005) and the
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2018 film by Per Fly
Michael Ben Kingsley as Costa Pasaris, a.k.a. Pasha (fashioned after Benon Sevan, the actual head of the United Nations' Oil-for-Food Programme) Belçim
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Reporter, writer and whistleblower
much of his time in the country, Soussan worked as the assistant to Benon Sevan, the Armenian Cypriot administrator of the program. According to Backstabbing
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Leader of Afghanistan from 1987 to 1992
Meanwhile, the U.N. Secretary General representative for Afghanistan, Benon Sevan, had been negotiating with Najibullah and the mujahideen rebels for a
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de facto president of the Cyprus Republic after the 1974 coup d'état Benon Sevan, ex-head of UN Oil for Food program Ploutis Servas, first Secretary General
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that the director of the OFFP, Benon Sevan, personally accepted $147,184 in bribes from Saddam's government, which Sevan denied. By the late 1990s, the
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Ethnic Armenians living in Cyprus
broadcaster and human rights activist who thrives in London, United Kingdom Benon Sevan (born 1937), once the Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations
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Investigation sessions
required to forfeit $1,200,000. On January 16, 2007, former UN official Benon Sevan was indicted by a Manhattan federal prosecutor for taking about $160
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Executive body of the Afghan government
held an emergency session to address the Afghan crisis, and UN envoy Benon Sevan extended his stay in Kabul for further discussions. Additionally, Wakil
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Stojan Župljanin Veselin Šljivančanin Oil-for-Food Programme Kofi Annan Benon Sevan David B. Chalmers Norm Coleman George Galloway Paul Volcker International
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Secretary-General in Afghanistan and Pakistan (OSGAP) in late 1980s under Benon Sevan, the special envoy representative of United Nation Secretary-General
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President Mohammad Najibullah indicated his readiness to step down. UN envoy Benon Sevan reportedly influenced Najibullah's decision to make this statement. The
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Former Armenian boarding school in Nicosia, Cyprus
Melkonian include Vahan Tekeyan, Moushegh Ishkhan, Apraham Manoogian, Benon Sevan, Vahan Bedelian and Vahram Mavian. In 2003 an Alumni led campaign to
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American journalist (1955–2023)
Russian businesses and, evidently, to the U.N.'s own man in charge, Benon Sevan. For this work, she was honored with the 2005 Eric Breindel Award for
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Singaporean diplomat
vulnerability of the United Nations' Oil-for-Food Programme for Iraq. Benon Sevan, the head of the programme, along with UN Deputy Secretary-General Louise
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Kind.
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English
English : probably a variant spelling of Beeson.
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Spanish
Receiver of life from Zeus.
Male
English
English surname transferred to forename use, BENSON means "son of Ben."
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Hindu
Lord Krishna
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German
Brave as a bear.
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English American
Settlement in a grassy place.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from the medieval personal name Benne, a pet form of Benedict (see Benn).English : habitational name from a place in Oxfordshire named Benson, from Old English Benesingtūn ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with Benesa’, a personal name of obscure origin, perhaps a derivative of Bana meaning ‘slayer’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : patronymic composed of a pet form of the personal name Beniamin (see Bien, Benjamin) + German Sohn ‘son’.Scandinavian : altered form of such names as Bengtsson, Bendtsen, patronymics from Bengt, Bendt, etc., Scandinavian forms of Benedict.
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Blessed.
Male
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Anglicized form of Hebrew Ben-Owniy, BENONI means "son of my sorrow." In the bible, this is the name given to Benjamin by his mother Rachel as she died giving birth to him.
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English : probably a variant of Benden, which may be a habitational name from Benenden in Kent, named from the Old English personal name Bionna + -ing- denoting association with + denn ‘woodland pasture’.
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(Ζήνων) Ancient Greek name, possibly ZENON means "of Zeus."
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English Hebrew
Ben's son. surname.
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Greek Spanish
Friendly.
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Biblical Hebrew
Son of my sorrow or pain.
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Greek Spanish
Friendly.
Surname or Lastname
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English : habitational name from a pair of villages in Northumbria named with Old English bēan ‘beans’ (a collective singular) or beonet ‘bent grass’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The name is now most frequent in the West Midlands, however, so it may be that a place of the same name in that area should be sought as its origin.
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Good.
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American, British, English
Industrious
Male
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(ΞÎνων) Greek name derived from the word xenos, XENON means "foreigner; stranger."Â
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Rising Sun
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Victorious.
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Indian, Modern
Lovable
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Tamil
Chief, Leader, Joy, Delight
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American, Australian, British, English
Darling; Beloved; Variant of Darrell
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Italian Latin American
Attendant.
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Indian, Sanskrit
With an Army of the Gods
Biblical
father of pleasantness
Female
Hawaiian
Hawaiian name KEILANI means "glorious chief."
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Lord Name
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n.
A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through.
a.
Discovered or described by M. Tenon, a French anatomist.
v. t.
To make a drawbore in; as, to drawbore a tenon.
n.
The projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece.
v. t.
To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.
n.
A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame; especially, such a member when it passes entirely through the thickness of the piece in which the mortise is cut, and shows on the other side. Cf. Tooth, Tusk.
n.
See Coak, a kind of tenon.
n.
The tenon of a dovetail joint.
n.
An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc.
n.
A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak.
v.
A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin.
n.
A kind of tenon connecting the face of a scarfed timber with the face of another timber, or a dowel or pin of hard wood or iron uniting timbers.
n.
A kind of tenon on the end of a joist, received into a notch in a bearing timber, and resting flush with its upper surface.
n.
A saw (as a tenon saw) whose blade is stiffened by an added metallic back.
n.
A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.
v. t.
To cut or fit for insertion into a mortise, as the end of a piece of timber.
n.
A cavity cut into a piece of timber, or other material, to receive something (as the end of another piece) made to fit it, and called a tenon.
n.
An adjustable gage, with double points for transferring measurements from one timber to another, as the breadth of a mortise to the place where the tenon is to be made.
n.
The French name for concrete; hence, concrete made after the French fashion.