The sorry answer is that while U.N. ambitions and spending have soared, U.N. reform efforts have largely fizzled.
U.N. officials said U.S. forces helped escort wounded U.N. staff members to a U.N. clinic.
The headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Port-au-Prince collapsed, a U.N. official told CNN.
All this comes as U.S. and U.N. officials acknowledge they're having trouble getting Sudan to accept U.N. peacekeepers.
U.N. security guards dragged out a woman and questioned her before both protesters were escorted off U.N. property.
No U.N. staff members were injured in the blast, said Juliette Touma, spokeswoman for the U.N. mission in Syria.
The U.N. called on Syrian and rebel troops at that time to honor the impartiality of the U.N. troops.
The U.N. says renegade Bosnian troops launched the attack, and that local officials are cooperating with the U.N. withdrawal.
At present, there are 291 U.N. military observers and more than 90 U.N. civilians on the ground in Syria.
U.N. and KFOR officials said they were not concerned by the lack of information and denied that the U.N.
U.N. officials in Goma say they began to insist on the exclusion of Mr. Ntaganda from all operations involving the U.N.
Annan, the U.N. and Arab League special envoy to Syria, invited top diplomats from the five permanent members of the U.N.
In response, The U.N. rapidly established a Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) to organize conferences, along with the U.N.
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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.
More than 1, 000 U.N. peacekeepers, including the brigadier general in charge, were present and observed gunfire without taking action, U.N. records show.
They were not real U.N. observers, however, but demonstrators who were mocking the tiny six-man U.N. mission in the country so far.
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Meanwhile, a close associate of Mr Dalmiya, U N Bannerjee has filed a defamation case against the present board vice-president Lalit Modi.
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Peter Wittig, Germany's U.N. ambassador and the current president of the U.N.
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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.
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.
Lakhdar Brahimi, the chief U.N. envoy for Afghanistan, has ruled out a U.N. peacekeeping force because it would take several months to put together.
Meanwhile, half of the U.N. observers have left Syria as their mission begins what is set to be its final 30-day mandate, the U.N.
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.
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.
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.
Bush and Blair went to the U.N. in good faith to build international support, and perhaps in the process to rescue the U.N. from irrelevance.
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.
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.
At a U.N. compound next door to the scene of the attack, anxious U.N. employees hunkered down indoors after shrapnel from the initial blast sprinkled the gardens.
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.
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