But an urge to dig ever deeper into your wallet, dear tax-payer, has become a staple on the drawing boards of U.N. plan-o-crats.
Under a tentative peace deal, al-Bashir agreed in November to a three-phase U.N. plan to strengthen the overstretched, 7, 000-strong African Union force in Darfur.
It has authorized up to 300 monitors in Syria to monitor a cease-fire and the six-point peace plan of U.N. and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan.
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"The armed groups also disregarded Annan's plan and the initial agreement between the United Nations and the Syrian government, aided by Arab and international powers that are still providing the terrorists with up-to-date weapons and communication devices that help them in committing their crimes and sticking to their defiance of the U.N. plan, " the ministry said, according to the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency.
Obama and Putin said they would both support a so far ineffective cease-fire plan by former U.N.
Susan Rice told CNN on Wednesday that diplomats hope the Syrian government adheres to the Annan plan or the U.N.
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By the end of 2006, the Alliance was supposed to present an "action plan" for U.N. consideration, and wind down operations.
The simmering guerilla campaign continued for 22 years, when South Africa agreed to end administration of the region under a U.N. peace plan.
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The resolution calls on Syrian government forces to withdraw from towns and cities, a key element in the six-point peace plan of joint U.N.
The cease-fire went into effect April 12 and is part of a six-point peace plan negotiated by U.N. and Arab League joint special envoy Kofi Annan.
Not surprisingly, those remaining a decade later were in no mood to accept a 1947 U.N. partition plan envisaging a small, 45% Arab, state of Israel, and a Palestinian Arab state in what is now the West Bank.
He described his profound disappointment in the 1947 U.N. partition plan, and the fact that the Jews had not been awarded Biblical places like Hebron, where the Patriarchs are buried, and Shiloh, the center of Jewish worship before the building of the First Temple.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is at the U.N. promoting a plan for a conference on Middle East peace this fall.
The cease-fire is part of a six-point peace plan laid out by U.N.
"If it's an expiring tax break, everybody wants it, even if they don't know why, " sighs Edward Slott, a CPA and retirement plan specialist in Rockville Centre, N.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry statement backtracks on previous public commitments given by the government that it will fully abide by the U.N. six-point plan, which paves the way for a cease-fire, due to be implemented by Tuesday.
But Yugoslavia refused to withdraw without a U.N. resolution supporting the peace plan agreed to earlier by Belgrade.
The text of the draft calls for the immediate implementation of a six-point peace plan, as put forward by U.N.
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The Tax Court has said that's a gift. n If you didn't plan to forgive a loan, but find a relative can't repay you, don't just let the bad loan sit there.
Shaaban reiterated a comment made by other Syrian officials, that Damascus still holds hope that the peace plan put forth by Arab League-U.N.
GENEVA, Switzerland (CNN) -- The U.N. refugee agency has prepared a plan for hundreds of thousands of Iraqis to return to their war-torn country.
Colonial sentiment or not, the French plan is to hand off Mali to U.N. and African forces and exit completely after elections in July.
Administration sources said the goal is to win a strong statement from Annan backing the political transition plan and a commitment to send a U.N. team to Iraq to assist with the effort.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the move "sends an unequivocal message that we will intensify the pressure until the Assad regime ends the killing" and fully implements a six-point plan put forward by Kofi Annan, joint U.N.
It also backs the U.N. monitoring mission to ensure that the peace plan, accepted by the government and opposition groups, is being followed.
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At the same time, the U.N. must work hard at selling its peace plan to neighboring nations, so they will rein in their proxies in Afghanistan.
"Today marks a critical moment in our six-point plan for ending the violence in Syria, " said U.N.
U.N. envoy Kofi Annan's six-point plan to end the crisis addresses the issue.
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