While the UK was not "sitting on the sidelines", there were more constraints over Syria than in Libya - there was no authority for military intervention from the UN, the effect on surrounding countries such as the Lebanon, Israel and Saudi Arabia had to be taken into account and military intervention would have to be "on a vastly greater scale" than in Libya.
The document includes a work-plan to put the UN Plan of Action in to effect, and follows extensive consultation since the endorsement of the Plan by the UN Chief Executives Board on 12 April 2012.
To remove them would be, in effect, to un-report the story.
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The proposed change would, in effect, give the UN and other nations regulatory control over content.
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On September 16th, the Americans vetoed a UN Security Council resolution to this effect, because it did not explicitly condemn Palestinian terrorist groups.
Yet, that would be the effect of our joining one of the UN's offshoots--the International Seabed Authority (ISA), a supranational organization created by Part XI of the Law of the Sea Treaty.
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UN's new toughness towards Albanian extremism has also had a beneficial effect in Macedonia.
Correspondents say the first effect of the American veto would be the end of the UN mission to train a new Bosnian police force.
Including the disparity of views across countries, the French inconsistency following Kosovo, the inability of the UN to deal with issues that arise within a countries boundaries, but nonetheless threaten to have a global effect and last but not least the pivotal issue of Palestine recognition.
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