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Ban elaborates the most on the idea to shift the strategy of the current U.N. team.

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An advance team of U.N. observers is in Syria to check compliance with the cease-fire, with 30 unarmed monitors expected in the coming days.

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"We just sat there, and he'd ask questions nonstop, " said Todd, now a coach with the New Jersey Titans, a junior team in Farmingdale, N.

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He withdrew the U.N. team days before the war started.

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Amid the violence, a five-member U.N. team with expertise in politics, peacekeeping and mediation was on the ground in Syria, according to Eduardo del Buey, deputy spokesman for the U.N. secretary-general.

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The 300-strong U.N. team in Syria, whose mission is to observe and help implement the plan, has been unable to do its work as envisioned because of present conditions, the document states.

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Administration sources said the goal is to win a strong statement from Annan backing the political transition plan and a commitment to send a U.N. team to Iraq to assist with the effort.

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"The circumstances surrounding this incident are yet not clear and we have not yet been able to verify the numbers, " said Ms. Ghosheh adding that a team of U.N. experts has stayed behind to collect evidence and ascertain the facts.

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"All the parties" have agreed to a release of the 21 held since Wednesday, and the U.N. peacekeeping agency has dispatched a team to help collect them, U.N. spokeswoman Josephine Guerrero said.

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"We destroyed a lot of chemical weapons, " says Duelfer of the U.N. inspection team.

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The United Nations said preparations are under way for a U.N. multidisciplinary team to go to Bamako soon.

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But the presence of the tiny but growing U.N. observer team is having a "dampening effect" on the violence, Ladsous said.

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The most high-profile aspect of the latest international efforts is the U.N. observer team, many of which arrived ahead of Mood earlier this month.

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But the presence of the tiny but growing U.N. observer team is having a "dampening effect" on what has been an atmosphere of "appalling" violence, said U.N.

CNN: U.N. notes cease-fire violations from both sides in Syria

Ban also announced Friday a team effort between U.N. agencies and the Chilean government to determine the priority areas for funds, with emphasis on health, shelters, education and water.

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Despite his obvious shortcomings as IAEA chief before the Gulf War, after the war he was asked to head the U.N. inspections team, this time in tandem with Mr. Ekus.

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In February, U.N. weapons inspectors "found nothing untoward" at an ammunition filling plant close to where the troops have found the mobile labs, a U.N. inspection team spokesman said Monday.

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After a U.N. inspection team had verified this attack and brought back horrific videotapes of the injured Iranians, arms control specialists were miffed that their benign assumptions had been so crudely disproved by Saddam.

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The New York area already has an MLS franchise, the Red Bulls, but that team is based in Harrison, N.

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But there is no reason a small team, appointed by the U.N. and Jakarta and led by 1996 Nobel Peace Prize-winner Bishop Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, should not be allowed to attend as observers.

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Look for a boom in team buying and cyber-fleet sales. n Brand and service will not protect companies from rude, disruptive change.

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Tebow arrived at the team's facility in Florham Park, N.

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For the Clinton team, implementing the decisions of the U.N.

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However, the team behind the work has stopped short of definitively calling N parringtoni the earliest dinosaur, because the fossil skeletons used to define it were incomplete: one upper arm bone and six vertebrae.

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The defense team has called for Libya and Mauritania to be referred to the U.N.

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He was met at Kabul's airport Friday morning by a team of mine clearance experts -- a symbol of one of the U.N.

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