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... Univa Names New CEO The Leading Source for Global News, Information and Events on Grid and Service-Oriented IT / March 20, 2006 Home Page Systems/Enterprise: Univa Names New CEO By Derrick Harris, Editor In a move that Steve Tuecke, Univa's former CEO, described as the execution of "what has been out plan for a long time," the company announced Michael Ellis as the new CEO last week.As for Tuecke, who was the chief architect of the Globus Toolkit, he has been named CTO, and will focus his energies on that position, which he said is a better fit anyway.

"In creating the company, I knew my job was to get it launched," Tuecke said, "but it had become clear long, long ago that to really take this where we wanted to go, we needed an experienced business executive."Enter Ellis, who has more than 25 years of management experience in the software market.

He has spent time at companies like Oracle Corp.

and i2 Technologies, where he was a senior vice president, and was most recently managing director of Ellis Management Group, where consulted with numerous businesses to develop new revenue and market opportunities.Ellis sees Univa as a company with an opportunity to be a "predominant leader" in terms of providing Grid solutions to the business world, and plans on helping companies recognize the business value of Grid computing across their global operations."The main mission," said Ellis, "is to take the tremendous Grid capability and Grid solutions of Univa and apply those to sp...

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where you read it first Navigation Home Media Archives Submit Release Privacy Policy Terms of Use About Us Contact Us IN MESSAGE TO ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT , SECRETARY-GENERAL REVIEWS SITUATIONS IN KEY AREAS OF CONFLICT Following is the text of the message by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Summit of the League of Arab States in Khartoum, as delivered today, 28 March, by Ibrahim Gambari, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs (Media-Newswire.com) - It gives me great pleasure to send my greetings to all who have come to Khartoum for this Summit meeting.You gather during a period of continued turbulence in the Arab world and the surrounding region, and thus of many formidable challenges for you, the region’s leaders, for your Organization, and for the international community as a whole.In Iraq, while the main benchmarks of the transition timetable have been met, the situation remains dangerous and unstable.

In the aftermath of last month’s heinous bombing of the shrine in Samarra, sectarian violence has emerged as a leading threat.

The United Nations continues to believe that an inclusive and transparent political process offers the best prospects for improving security, safeguarding human rights, consolidating gains towards democracy and improving the welfare of the Iraqi people.

Therefore, it is now incumbent on all concerned to move swiftly to form a fully inclusive Government.

The United Nati...

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where you read it first Navigation Home Media Archives Submit Release Privacy Policy Terms of Use About Us Contact Us MAY REVIEW OF LANDMARK FISH STOCKS AGREEMENT TO STRESS PARTICIPATION, IMPLEMENTATION IN ORDER TO REVERSE DECLINE OF FISH STOCKS NEW YORK, 27 March (UN Office of Legal Affairs) - Countries on Friday stressed that greater political will was needed to properly manage and conserve the world’s overstressed fisheries as they concluded a five-day preparatory meeting for a conference in May on the 1995 landmark fisheries treaty.

(Media-Newswire.com) - The Review Conference of the 1995 Agreement for the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, which will be held at the United Nations from 22 to 26 May, will assess how effectively countries have implemented the Agreement and, if necessary, propose ways to strengthen its implementation.With three quarters of the world’s fisheries in distress and nearing depletion, there is urgency in addressing the situation on the high seas.“Participants at this meeting are looking forward to a rigorous review of this Agreement”, said David Balton ( United States ), who chaired the preparatory talks.

“We expect that in May there will be an in-depth assessment of the treaty’s adequacy and effectiveness, and in light of that assessment, we expect that there will be new ideas for strengthening the Agreement.”Countries agr...