In addition, the U.N. secretary-general's special representative in Kosovo has asked the World Health Organization to send in experts to help them assess whether there is any risk to the civilian population in Kosovo.
Like the lightly-armed Dutch contingent of U.N. peacekeepers in Srebrenica, brushed aside by Bosnian Serb forces commanded by General Ratko Mladic, the 300 U.N. monitors in Syria have no power to influence events -- just to observe and report them.
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The Tunisian government warned of "immediate and disastrous consequences" to bilateral relations and said the "serious" attacks are likely to force Tunis to take "severe" measures such as reporting the violations to the U.N. secretary general in order "to defend its territorial integrity, " the source told the news agency.
More than 1, 000 U.N. peacekeepers, including the brigadier general in charge, were present and observed gunfire without taking action, U.N. records show.
Talks between Iran and the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency are "going around in circles, " the agency's director general told a meeting of U.N. officials in Vienna on Monday.
The former U.N. secretary-general arrived in China on Tuesday to meet with officials and rally support for his plan to end the violence.
The former U.N. secretary-general said the situation in Syria is "much more complex" than that in Libya or other nations.
That's why Dean Jackson, general manager of Keller Chevrolet in Cheektowaga, N.
What awaits Wilders in the Netherlands may be a harbinger of what will happen if a nonbinding Dec. 18 U.N. resolution, passed by a strong majority in the General Assembly, becomes international law.
Under criticism for the U.N. military's performance in the Balkans, Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali wanted the Eastern Slavonia operation to be part of the Bosnian NATO mission.
The warning from NATO ambassadors was in response to Friday's meeting between General Mladic and U.N. commander General Bernard Janvier.
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"We should seriously consider the lessons to be learnt and, if necessary, re-examine the regulations on the safety of large passenger ships in the light of the findings of the casualty investigation, " Koji Sekimizu, secretary-general of the U.N. agency, said in a statement Monday.
In 1971, Austrian Kurt Waldheim took over as U.N. secretary-general after U That retired.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has been in power since 1985, portrayed the U.N. recognition as a national triumph in the run-up to the general elections.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has been in power since the mid-1980s, has portrayed the U.N. recognition as a national triumph in the run-up to the general elections.
More than 170 supply trucks crossed into Gaza on Monday, less than a third of the daily number that crossed in 2005, said John Holmes, U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator.
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Secretary-General signed a series of Agreements in New York to ascertain through U.N.
In 1961, the General Assembly unanimously elected U Thant acting secretary general of the U.N.
"We feel there's going to be a gradual increase in demand" for lumber, said Jeff Lisk, a general manager of the Hamburg, N.
"We hope there will be good results from these talks, " said Pachachi, who will lead a delegation to join Secretary-General Kofi Annan in meetings Monday with Coalition Provisional Authority representatives and the U.N.
In 1976, Martha Mitchell, the estranged wife of former U.S. Attorney General John N.
In remarks at the United Nations Tuesday, the special representative of the U.N. secretary-general for Somalia, Augustine Mahiga, hailed the progress made.
"All the parties need to take further steps to ensure a cessation of violence in all its forms, " said Herve Ladsous, the U.N. under-secretary-general for peacekeeping, on Tuesday.
Amid the violence, a five-member U.N. team with expertise in politics, peacekeeping and mediation was on the ground in Syria, according to Eduardo del Buey, deputy spokesman for the U.N. secretary-general.
In 1992, Egyptian Boutros Boutros Ghali succeeded Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as U.N secretary-general.
But Jeffrey Sachs, a renowned economist and special adviser to the U.N. secretary-general, said neither candidate will be able to stop continued financial woes in the near future.
Rice, however, told reporters she couldn't imagine how the Syrian ambassador, who wasn't in the room when Annan was speaking, could characterize accurately what the former U.N. secretary-general said.
After days of trying to obtain permission from Syrian authorities to travel to the country, Valerie Amos, U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, will arrive Wednesday in Damascus, she said.
In 1988, Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar hailed the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to U.N. peacekeeping forces as a tribute to idealism, valor and sacrifice.
The secretary-general said he will meet with the heads of all U.N. humanitarian agencies next week in Geneva to develop plans to better deal with the Balkan refugee crisis.
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