Draft:Igor R. Janev

Igor Janev (Игор Jанев) is a Yugoslav and Macedonian diplomat and political scientist.

Janev was born in Belgrade on September 29, 1964, which was, at that time, part of Yugoslavia.

In 1994, he obtained both a Doctor of Juridical Science and a Doctor of Philosophy from the Faculty of Law at Methodius University in Skopje, after which he spent time as a postdoctoral visiting researcher at Georgetown University, the University of Virginia, and Tufts University. In 1995 and 1996, he was a Senior Research Associate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Janev has published 116 scientific articles and more than 25 monographs in the scientific areas of international law and international relations. He was a special counsel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Macedonia from 2001 to 2002. In 2002, he was a special advisor to the president of the Republic of Macedonia. Janev have published thousands of papers, comments and interviews in local Macedonian media.

Janev was an international expert who proposed to the United Nations Senior Management Group (SMG ) a new model for co-ordination in the UN system of organizations, with the potential for elimination of the negative administrative and financial effects of the present mechanism of co-ordination in the UN system. His model is based on the idea of introducing a budgetary control mechanism into the United Nations inter-agency system by providing the UN General Assembly with a legal power to approve (not only consider) the regular (administrative) budgets of UN-related agencies, by amending article 17 (paragraph 3) of the United Nations Charter. This amendment would induce a stronger de facto and de jure binding power in all United Nations decisions relating to the program(s) and budget co-ordination within the UN system and thus create a more centralized and efficient system. Administrative agreements and arrangements governing relations between the United Nations and the UN-related organizations (Specialized Agencies and IAEA) in the UN system would also be amended in accordance with that revision.