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.
Soviet participation in the U.N. and specialized U.N. agencies is rife with such examples.
The headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Port-au-Prince collapsed, a U.N. official told CNN.
The Syrian government Friday underscored its position on terror in letters to top U.N. officials, including U.N.
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.
Two blasts at Aleppo University killed at least 82 people Tuesday, Syria's U.N. ambassador, Bashar Jaafari, told the U.N.
The U.N. report was issued after Israel did not show up at a U.N. review of its human rights record.
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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They burned shops, threw rocks and fired weapons at some of the U.N. workers, though none of the U.N. workers were injured.
Peter Wittig, Germany's U.N. ambassador and the current president of the U.N.
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It has been educating now two or more generations of high school and college students about a U.N. that isn't really 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.
In response, the U.N. began using a database of human-rights abuses to vet army officers before allowing U.N. troops to support their troops.
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.
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