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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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. ambassador to the U.N. complained that Sudan didn't even let U.N. contingency planners in recently, and that is the first step.
All this comes as U.S. and U.N. officials acknowledge they're having trouble getting Sudan to accept U.N. peacekeepers.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
The U.S. Congress has also largely lost interest in how the U.N. handles the money of U.S. taxpayers.
Peter Wittig, Germany's U.N. ambassador and the current president of the U.N.
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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.
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