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.
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.
U.N. officials said U.S. forces helped escort wounded U.N. staff members to a U.N. clinic.
The countries the U.S. consulted on a U.N. resolution were "thinking through complicated issues that require very careful consideration, " the U.S. ambassador to the U.N.
Foreign Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf has demanded that the summit support his country's demands for an end to both U.N. sanctions and U.S. and British air patrols over Iraq.
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.
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.
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.
The U.S. Congress has also largely lost interest in how the U.N. handles the money of U.S. taxpayers.
Washington and Baghdad have been locked in negotiations on the terms of a long-term deal to keep U.S. troops in Iraq beyond the end of the year, when a U.N. mandate that gives the U.S. legal cover to stay in Iraq ends.
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These columns have long tried sympathetically to explain Mexican realities to our readers, but President Vicente Fox's U.N. war straddle will cost his country years of U.S. public goodwill.
Iraqi, U.S. and U.N. officials have consistently warned against a possible uptick in attacks ahead of Iraq's all-important provincial elections.
The Clinton Administration has placed great emphasis on multilateralism, particularly with respect to U.N. peacekeeping operations involving U.S. forces in several arenas.
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.
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.
Mr. JOHN BOLTON (U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.): I don't think it's helpful to divert attention from seeking to get a permanent sustainable solution based on the approach that we and the French have been taking, and that's the approach we're going to continue to work on.
John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. made it clear he was not happy with Russia's proposal.
Under pressure from U.S. and U.N. peace negotiators, diplomats temporarily halted the offensive Tuesday.
All this comes as U.S. and U.N. officials acknowledge they're having trouble getting Sudan to accept U.N. peacekeepers.
After a flurry of meetings with U.S. and U.N. officials, the Afghan president agreed to the November 7 vote.
The U.S. and U.N. envoys should proactively back a root-and-branch Congolese reform process to address critical issues that undergird the conflict, from decentralization to army reform.
Iraqi, U.S. and U.N. officials have geared up for election-related violence, and at least two candidates for local councils have been killed in the past few weeks.
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In recent months, Iran has begun installing at nuclear sites hundreds of more-advanced centrifuge machines capable of producing fuel at three times the current rate, according to U.S. and U.N. officials.
At Tuesday's U.N. hearing, Biti will present evidence the party believes shows Zimbabwe's deteriorating political climate and a government trying to hold on to power, said George Sibotshiwe, a spokesman for Tsvangirai.
Syria's U.N. ambassador, Bashar Jaafari, slammed the council for not issuing an official condemnation of Wednesday's bombing, although he noted that Kofi Annan, joint envoy to Syria for the United Nations and the Arab League, condemned it.
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The U.S. hopes the U.N. resolution will push Sri Lanka to address the criticisms.
Just hours after President Obama was re-elected, the U.S. backed a U.N. call to renew debate over a draft Arms Trade Treaty (ATT).
What I can tell you is that there are certainly concerns from the U.S. and the U.N. that the food that they're delivering is not getting outside fast enough from Yangon Airport to the Irrawaddy Delta.
Mr. Clinton would be in even bigger trouble on Capitol Hill but for his decision to retreat -- at least temporarily -- from the lunacy of inserting several hundred, effectively unarmed U.S. servicemen under U.N. command into the anarchy that is Haiti.
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