We've had sanctions on the government of Sudan, and we're prepared to tighten those sanctions and to do so, both unilaterally as well as to work with the U.N. to try to have sanctions imposed multilaterally.

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Kofi Annan, whose assistants this week used the media to try to decapitate the U.N.

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Next month, Mr. Obama will try to use the first U.N. review of the Non-Proliferation Treaty in five years to toughen the treaty and isolate two of its scofflaws, Iran and North Korea.

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Third, try to put in place a U.N.

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Undersecretary of State Burns said the U.S. isn't putting all of its eggs in the U.N. basket and will now try to persuade Japan, the European Union and others to take tougher action and encourage banks to cut off lending to Iran.

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And finally our last headline, the U.N. announced yesterday that the regional government of Southern Sudan is going to try to mediate between rebel groups in Darfur.

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Last week, the Serbian authorities handed him to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, which wants to try him in connection with the alleged war crimes in Kosovo.

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Since then, the U.N. has maintained offices in Phnom Penh, and has called for a special court to try detained Khmer Rouge bigwigs.

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