Canada's Position Paper on Civil War in South Sudan Canada

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COMITTEE: United Nations Security Council[pic 5]

COUNTRY: Canada

Official Name: Canada

Government: Parliamentary democracy

Capital: Ottawa

Head of Government: Prime minister

National Day:  Anniversary of the Constitution Act , 1 July 

Official language: English and French

Dependent Areas: Quebec,  Northwest Territories, Ontario, Nunavut, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Newfounland and Labrador, British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island.

Membership to: Arctic Council, APEC, ASEAN, Commonwealth, EU, La Francophonie, G7, G20, IDB, ICAO, International Criminal Court, NATO, Order of Malta, OSCE, Geneva (permanent), OAS (permanent), OECD (permanent), UN (permanent), UNESCO, FAO, UN-HABITAT, UNEP, ICAO.

Monetary Unit: Canadian Dollar

GDP: $1.827 trillion USD (2013)

GDP per capita: $51,958.38 USD (2013)

Defense Budget: $16.443 billion

Area: 9.985 million  sq km

Population: 35.16 million (2013)

Life Expectancy: 81.24 years (2012)

Overall School Enrolment: 58,305 million (1980 est.)

International Disputes: Managed maritime boundary disputes with the US at Dixon Entrance, Beaufort Sea, Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the Gulf of Maine including the disputed Machias Seal Island and North Rock; Canada and the United States dispute how to divide the Beaufort Sea and the status of the Northwest Passage but continue to work cooperatively to survey the Arctic continental shelf; US works closely with Canada to intensify security measures for monitoring and controlling legal and illegal movement of people, transport, and commodities across the international border; Sovereignty dispute with Denmark over Hans Island in the Kennedy Channel between Ellesmere Island and Greenland; commencing the collection of technical evidence for submission to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in support of claims for continental shelf beyond 200 nm from its declared baselines in the Arctic, as stipulated in Article 76, paragraph 8, of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Sources: http://www.indexmundi.com/canada/disputes_international.html

http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/prmny-mponu/index.aspx?lang=eng

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