U.N. officials said U.S. forces helped escort wounded U.N. staff members to a U.N. clinic.
U.S. troops in armored vehicles deployed outside another U.N. compound in Kabul that houses the headquarters of several U.N. organizations, a senior U.N. official said.
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.
But in the matter of U.N. oversight of its own ventures, it sets a disturbing precedent that to this day, the U.N. has not raised any serious objection to Picco having served as a U.N. undersecretary-general running the U.N.
Some families of the Pan Am victims complained about the delay in the U.N.. Others have said they want the U.N. and U.S. sanctions to remain in place until Libya proves it will not support terrorism.
The NATO and U.N. commanders exchanged certificates of change, and afterwards the U.N. special envoy expressed what many have come to believe -- that this was not the U.N.
Meanwhile, legislation is being prepared by Senator Jim Inhofe that would, importantly, condition U.S. contributions to the U.N. on a U.N. promise not to pursue international taxation schemes.
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So we'll be able to speak to both the role the United States has -- I'll think we'll want to talk through, again, now that there's a new U.N. mandate with the U.N.
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"The fact that Jason is the only one of more than 3, 000 Americans imprisoned abroad (to have the support of the U.N.), the U.N. calling for his release should demonstrate to the Nicaraguan government that its failure to resolve this case quickly will have serious diplomatic consequences, " he said.
No one since the days of the Oil-for-Food scandal has yet explained who actually enforces compliance with U.N. sanctions by all 192 U.N. member states--and their endlessly proliferating front companies.
The sorry answer is that while U.N. ambitions and spending have soared, U.N. reform efforts have largely fizzled.
At present, there are 291 U.N. military observers and more than 90 U.N. civilians on the ground in Syria.
He orchestrated the deal under which the U.S. would pay its dues owned to the U.N. in exchange for reforms at the U.N.
Russia and China both also likely fear the U.N. vote could set a precedent for U.N. and international intervention in their own internal disputes.
If you look at the U.N. agencies, I talked to one U.N. official who said that, you know, his own agency, up until a couple years ago, was active in every one of the 17 districts of Kandahar province.
Peter Wittig, Germany's U.N. ambassador and the current president of the U.N.
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One senior Western diplomat, however, said Powell during the U.N. briefing differentiated between the actions of the U.S. as a U.N. member and as a nation.
U.N. diplomats say the expectation is that the U.N. force would not take over from African troops currently on the ground until July 1 at the earliest.
U.N. officials believe the intention was to grab U.N. equipment.
The U.S. ambassador to the U.N. complained that Sudan didn't even let U.N. contingency planners in recently, and that is the first step.
Lakhdar Brahimi, the chief U.N. envoy for Afghanistan, has ruled out a U.N. peacekeeping force because it would take several months to put together.
The Syrian government and the opposition agreed to pull their forces from cities by Tuesday as part of an agreement brokered by Kofi Annan, the former U.N. secretary-general who now serves as the U.N. and Arab League special envoy on the Syrian crisis.
The U.N. has an office of internal oversight, set up at U.S. behest as part of a push for U.N. reform in the mid-1990s.
On July 11, Mr. Erdogan publicly vouched for the sincerity of Yasin al-Qadi, a Saudi financier identified by both the U.N. and U.S. Treasury Department as an al Qaeda financier.
Later, Iraq submitted two additional letters, each of which apparently sought to convey that Hussein would allow U.N. weapons inspectors to resume "all their activities" under U.N. resolutions without condition.
Syrian officials have demanded a U.N. response to the incident, which it said violates the U.N. charter and the 1974 agreement between Syria and Israel, negotiated after the Yom Kippur War.
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U.N. and U.S. officials agree that the former Afghan king, Mohammad Zahir Shah, 87, -- who has been living in Italy since a 1973 coup -- should play a role in the next government, even if it is a symbolic one.
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