Finally there is the administration's pledge to support Israel at the UN for a year.
In a letter made public late on Tuesday, Mr Salehi asked the UN for help in freeing the hostages.
Many Gazans have returned to find their homes and schools destroyed and are turning to the UN for help.
The army brigades, which were not identified, depend on the UN for military support such as attack helicopters, the official said.
The U.S. advocated and supported adoption of key elements of an accountability framework for the UN and for the first time this year defined what accountability means for the UN Secretariat.
Readers should remember that it is the UN member states that opt not to have a standing UN army, forcing the organization to rely on 'volunteer' Troop Contributing Countries, who are paid by the UN for their efforts.
Among other possibilities, that proposal may have included a US agreement to appoint a UN envoy responsible for organizing a UN conference calling for the Greater Middle East to become a nuclear-free zone.
As UNESCO Special Envoy for Basic and Higher Education and the UN advocate for the second Millennium Development Goal on primary education, I am passionate about bringing the benefits of education to children and communities across the world.
Russia had wanted a greater role for the UN in the post-war administration of Iraq and for the UN's weapons inspectors to return in order to certify that the country has no weapons of mass destruction.
As a goodwill ambassador for the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), Kidman drew attention to the stalled International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA), a domestic effort to address violence against women globally.
Partnerships with national governments and development partners, including, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the World Bank Booster Program for Malaria Control, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the UN Envoy for Malaria, which has mobilized thousands of partners with the goal of reaching the universal coverage of long lasting insecticide treated bed-nets by the end of this year, have made these successes possible.
UNESCO, as the lead agency for the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD, 2005-2014), is organizing expert consultations in the five UN Regions to collect positions on the development of an ESD programme framework after 2014 and prepare a final report on the DESD.
Making reference to the presence of the UN in Cuba for many years, the UN Resident Coordinator underlined the importance of the work of the UNESCO Regional Office for Culture in the country.
Baroness Rawlings, replying for the government, said the UK would call for a fresh UN resolution calling for observance of the Truce for the 2012 Games.
The UN mandate for coalition forces to remain in the country is due to expire on 31 December 2008.
As the lead UN agency for water sciences and education, UNESCO is moving ahead with an array of programmes to further this know-how.
UNESCO: World Water Day 22 March 2010: Clean Water for a Healthy World
These firms, all signatories of the UN Principles for Responsible Investing, now have access to more ESG data than ever before.
Cameroon's president Paul Biya and a delegation of ministers Thursday offered supplies and vaccination kits in UN camps for internally displaced persons.
The UN allowed for the creation of African-led International Support Mission in Mali (AFISMA) in concert with ECOWAS and the African Union.
The Waseela-e-Taleem programme was announced in Islamabad by Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and special UN envoy for global education, Gordon Brown.
UN, for its part, refuses to employ soldiers younger than 18 in its peacekeeping forces and prefers 21-year-olds for the tougher assignments.
Khartoum's veto led Jean-Marie Guehenno, the UN undersecretary for peacekeeping to warn last month that the entire peacekeeping mission may have to be aborted.
In a message, the UN Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, said it was time that governments and organisations moved from words to action.
The others are the UN Development Program (UNDP), UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), UN Fund for Population Activities, and the World Bank.
The government, local non-governmental organisations and the UN Programme for Development (UNDP) have been promoting the use of new biodegradable bags, the Mauritanian Information Agency reports.
Some six months earlier in November 1947 the UN voted for the partition of Palestine under British Mandate into two states, one Arab and one Jewish.
In the parliamentary debate, British government spokesmen insisted on the importance of a UN mandate for military action, and on the narrow goal of disarming Iraq.
The Annual Ministerial Review is organized each year by the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs to assess progress made in the implementation of the MDGs.
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