It also said its decision had nothing to do with the arrest of the group's secretary-general by U.S. forces December 31 in Mosul.
In particular, the question of how much Kofi Annan, the body's secretary-general, knew about his son's involvement in a company that won a UN contract, hangs heavy in the air.
Amr Moussa, the 22-state Arab League's secretary-general, paid a rare visit to Gaza earlier this month but met Hamas officials as members of a faction, not as Gaza's official authority, and asked Hamas's security guards not to escort him.
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UN's secretary-general, Kofi Annan, affirming Mr Cumaraswamy's role and his immunity from prosecution under existing conventions.
So the Gaullists, temporarily led by the young and ambitious Nicolas Sarkozy, the party's secretary-general, find themselves squeezed between Mr Pasqua's Europhobes, currently attracting 10-12% of the vote, and Mr Bayrou's Euro-federalists with 8-9%, leaving the main Gaullist-Liberal Democratic list with a wretched 17-20%.
He was the secretary-general's special envoy to Afghanistan from July 1997 to October 1999.
The UN secretary-general's special adviser on Burma, Vijay Nambiar, visited villagers displaced by the conflict on Sunday.
When journalists inquired about the veracity of the Iranian news report, the UN Secretary-General's Office defended its position.
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Saudi Arabia, the real power behind the secretary-general's throne, probably means it when it promises smooth sailing for the oil market.
Between his two assignments in Afghanistan, he was as undersecretary-general for special assignments in support of the secretary-general's preventive and peacemaking efforts.
It was left to the UN Secretary-General's special envoy to Cyprus, Alvaro de Soto, to announce that the two leaders had agreed to resume direct negotiations in Nicosia in mid-January with no preconditions.
In addition, the U.N. secretary-general's special representative in Kosovo has asked the World Health Organization to send in experts to help them assess whether there is any risk to the civilian population in Kosovo.
Last Friday, the Security Council voted unanimously to restart the oil-for-food programme under the control of the UN's secretary-general, Kofi Annan, for 45 days.
LDP's lower-house victory in 1996 and is the brains behind its upper-house campaign, has already served as the party's secretary-general for two terms.
Since the no-fly zone began to be enforced both the group's secretary-general, Amr Moussa, and individual members such as Algeria have voiced concern that the operation may be exceeding its mandate to protect Libyan civilians.
The meeting was the first high-level U.S.-Chinese contact since then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's brief visit to Beijing in September.
Nothing emerged to shake the prime minister's determination to stand by his culture secretary - this evening he has said his culture secretary did not break the ministerial code - but today's evidence and the latest in a series of Budget U-turns have shone a harsh light on the judgements made by the prime minister and his closest ally and adviser, the chancellor.
UN'S secretary-general, a legal expert may arrive in Cambodia in June to draft a law for Cambodia's National Assembly to consider.
Mr Sciarpelletti has called as one of his witnesses the first upper-level cleric - other than the Pope's personal secretary - to give evidence in the Vatileaks scandal.
NATO's new secretary-general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, recently agreed with Russia's envoy to the alliance, Dmitry Rogozin, that piracy was a field where they could work together.
The secretary's visit marks the highest-level interaction between the sides since former defense secretary Leon Penetta's brief trip to Beijing in September.
Tendai Biti, the MDC's secretary-general, has been jailed, charged with treason and denied bail.
LDP's secretary-general, will be made joint leader to help keep the troops in line.
UN's secretary-general, has chastised his members for failing to cough up enough manpower and money.
Take the behavior of NATO's Secretary-General and former Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
She highlighted the education secretary's U-turn over changes to the exams taken by pupils at the age 16.
UN's secretary-general, asked the Security Council for a total of 20, 500 peacekeepers, 8, 000 more than are there now.
UN's secretary-general, Kofi Annan, withdrew the investigating team from Kinshasa, saying its work was being blocked by official obstruction.
UN's secretary-general, urged the Security Council to impose sanctions on the two countries to force them out of Congo.
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