Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Mokdad met representatives of the U.N. mission staying at the hotel and said later that they were unscathed in the blast, and expressed his government's pride that not a single member of the U.N. mission has been harmed since the start of their mandate in late April.
The headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Port-au-Prince collapsed, a U.N. official told CNN.
In recent years, for instance, the U.S. Mission to the U.N. began doing its bit for U.N. transparency by posting U.N. internal audits on the U.S. Mission Web site.
Despite many challenges, Annan said the U.N. mission and attempts to implement his six-point plan continue.
Kai Eide, head of the U.N. mission in Afghanistan, said last week that the vote was flawed.
Our broader mission as U.N. members is to apply these ideals to the great issues of our time.
No U.N. staff members were injured in the blast, said Juliette Touma, spokeswoman for the U.N. mission in Syria.
Iran's U.N. mission allows officials from Iran's Ministry of Intelligence to live and operate in New York with official diplomatic cover.
They were not real U.N. observers, however, but demonstrators who were mocking the tiny six-man U.N. mission in the country so far.
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The MI-8 helicopter went down near the settlement of Likuangole, in the state of Jonglei, in the country's east, the U.N. mission said.
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Said Ahmad, the diplomat left in charge of Iraq's U.N. mission by Saddam Hussein's government, said he looked forward to the new Iraq.
"Simply where we stand, we're having a good effect, " Cosgrove said, briefing reporters on the second day of the U.N. mission to stabilize the territory.
Despite the cease-fire, the situation remains tense as displaced people and citizens continue to seek safety, a spokesman for the U.N. mission in Congo said Thursday.
"We are looking into the most effective and fastest way of helping MONUC, " he said, using the French acronym for the U.N. mission in Congo.
The U.N. mission in South Sudan said the attack was "an ambush by unidentified assailants" near the settlement of Gumuruk in Jonglei, according to a U.N. news release.
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He said the SPLA had contacted the U.N. mission after seeing the helicopter near an SPLA command post but had been told it had no aircraft in the area.
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As Indonesian political analyst Wimar Witular has pointed out, the daily demonstrations in front of the Australian Embassy and the U.N. mission in Jakarta have been organized primarily by paid thugs.
In this scenario, the U.N. mission would move its personnel from the field back to Damascus, where it would focus on pushing forward the six-point plan to the Syrian government and the opposition.
The U.N. mission's role in Syria was based on the premise that there would be a cessation to the violence, and failing that, "a calibration of effort in response to the situation on the ground would be appropriate, " Ban writes.
Laurent Nkunda, who leads troops of the National Congress for the Defense of the People, told CNN in a phone interview he wants to start working Friday with the U.N. mission in Congo, known by its French acronym MONUC, to allow people back to their homes.
The U.N. observer mission is tasked to monitor the cease-fire and the peace plan.
On June 16, the U.N. observer mission suspended its patrols in Syria because of increased fighting.
Neither d'Escoto's office nor Iran's Mission to the U.N. replied to my follow-up questions about these matters.
Today, the Dialogue still enjoys prominent billing on the Web site of Iran's Mission to the U.N.
North Korea's mission to the U.N. in New York declined to respond to questions about its weapons program.
Therefore, the U.N. observer mission is not substantively different from that found in the Arab League's observer mission.
Haiti's government is backed by a U.N. peacekeeping mission established after the ouster of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004.
The resolution also called for renewing the 300-member U.N. observer mission for 45 days after it was suspended because of violence.
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The fate of the U.N. observer mission was unclear after the vetoes.
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