The role of U.N. peacekeepers should be more clearly defined to focus on the protection of civilians.
To date, the administration has resisted a prominent U.N. role in the political transition, although it has not flatly ruled out such cooperation.
It is expected a large part of Brahimi's work will involve Iraq and that he will help define the U.N. role in the country.
One U.S. official said the new effort is proof the administration values the contributions of the Iraqi Governing Council, some of whose leading members have pressed for a greater U.N. role.
Annan, Iraqi Governing Council members and coalition officials, including U.S. civilian administrator L. Paul Bremer and top British official Jeremy Greenstock, are scheduled to meet Monday in New York to discuss the U.N. role.
But he said that ending the conflict there required a political solution, not a military one, and emphasized that the primary role of U.N. troops would be to monitor any cease-fire agreed upon by the warring parties.
That experience helped him leap from an administrative role onto the U.N.
His latest role as the U.N. special envoy for Haiti has taken him twice to the earthquake-ravaged island nation and he is leading efforts to raise money for the hard-hit area.
So these meetings tomorrow will be about marking that achievement, about receiving the TNC's plans for an inclusive transition in Libya, and also about underscoring the critical role that the U.N. is going to play as a body that can help provide expertise on the ground in Tripoli and other places as Libya moves into a post-Qaddafi government.
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The Pilika case has overshadowed the drawn-out international effort to set up a tribunal for the Khmer Rouge, and the role played by the U.N.
More recently, we played a key role in supporting the U.N. intervention - again, Blue Helmets in the Congo - and we paid 25 percent of the bill.
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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.
Earlier Saturday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Fedotov told Interfax news agency that it would be premature to speak of a role for Russia in a possible U.N. contingent.
The U.N. does have a "prominent role" to play, he conceded, but said it lies more in the humanitarian realm.
Damascus has denied any role in Hariri's killing, but a U.N. investigation has found indications of Syrian involvement.
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Less noted, perhaps, is the retrenchment of Roman Catholicism in France from the aggressive political role it played as recently as the Dreyfus affair toward the inward-turning N.
This summer he will sing the role of Alfredo in Verdi's "La Traviata" for his debut in Santa Fe, N.
Local newspapers will have a role, but already there is not enough journalism content to feed the hunger of small communities like Utica, N.
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And we think that -- U.S. forces are playing a constrained supporting role in a multinational coalition whose operations are both legitimized by and limited to the terms of a U.N.
Johnson is set for his latest starring role when he defends his title against John Cena at WrestleMania 29 on Sunday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.
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