NPR's Jackie Northam has been at the United Nations all day today.
The announcement comes as the United Nations celebrates its International Day of Biodiversity.
Because I've been working down there for nearly a year as the U.N. special envoy, I've been in constant touch with our people through the U.N. on the ground, and you know we lost a lot of our people there -- the largest loss of life in the history of the United Nations on a single day.
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The Security Council today committed itself to improving its strategies for ending or reconfiguring peacekeeping missions, or for their transition to other kinds of United Nations presences, following a day-long discussion involving top officials of the Organization as well as representatives of regional organizations, troop-contributing countries and the wider membership.
It was altogether commendable when, in October 2003, the General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed December 9 as International Anti-Corruption Day in order to raise awareness of global corruption and how the United Nations Convention against Corruption combats and prevents it.
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April 2 of each year has been declared World Autism Awareness Day by the United Nations General Assembly.
Every day, the United Nations feeds a minimum of 80 million people.
United Nations staff are working hard every day around the world to live up to the trust that has been placed in them.
Danforth, 68, said he plans to leave the United Nations on January 20, the day Bush will be inaugurated for a second term.
The day after the United Nations ratified a world court to try war criminals, sympathizers of the Palestinian intifada demanded that Israeli leaders be the first defendants.
State TV noted that the Qubeir killings happened a day before the United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council plan to hold meetings on the 15-month Syrian crisis.
The appeal court decision was announced the day after the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) issued a statement condemning "the continued harassment and imprisonment of persons exercising their rights to freedom of opinion and expression in Bahrain".
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"Sixty-five years ago on this day, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 181, which partitioned the land of historic Palestine into two states and became the birth certificate for Israel, " Mr Abbas said shortly before the vote in New York.
May 3rd has been officially designated by the United Nations General Assembly as World Press Freedom Day.
Rice, the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, issued a statement on the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia.
World Environment Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment.
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This 2011 International Biological Diversity Day marks the launch of the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity.
The U.S.-led air assault that launched the Gulf War began one day after the expiration of a United Nations deadline for Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait.
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Whether this will amount to more than a fleeting stay-of-execution depends on how many other senators and their constituents become aware of the implications of making the day in this manner of the United Nations and affiliated organizations.
South Korea's and Japan's new helicopter carriers could also one day be useful for moving troops in United Nations peacekeeping operations.
What I can tell you is that, as I said last week, as our Ambassador to the United Nations said on Sunday and as I said the other day, based on what we know now and knew at the time, we have no evidence of a preplanned or premeditated attack.
According to the United Nations, there are between 27 and 30 million modern-day slaves in the world.
World Book Day is an international day to encourage reading, promoted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco).
Elsewhere Mr Badnarik has promised, if elected, to wear his handgun during state-of-the-union addresses, blow up empty United Nations buildings and require violent criminals to lie in bed all day for the first month of their incarceration.
An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).
World Press Freedom Day was established by the General Assembly of the United Nations in December, 1993, as an outgrowth of the Seminar on Promoting an Independent and Pluralistic African Press.
Countries like Japan would never even think of going to war with the United States, because to interrupt trade between our nations for even a day would have disastrous results for the Japanese economy.
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High-ranking decision-makers and decision-shapers from the spheres of politics, academia, the United Nations, civil society and the private sector participated in this three-day conference.
Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations' special envoy to Iraq, returned recently from an 11-day trip to the country with a plan for the post-June 30th government.
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