The country's UN envoy believes drones are needed to make up for the expected decline in the UN's personnel presence.
Iraq's UN ambassador, Nizar Hamdoon, has clashed with the head of UN's weapons inspectors, Richard Butler, over who should control the site inspections.
On June 21st, after a long and costly legal battle that unearthed documents backing Mr Wasserstrom's case, the UN's new Dispute Tribunal overturned that.
Pedro Muora Costa, president of EcoSecurities, doesn't think that's possible, given the UN's methodical evaluation.
Ken Davies, Uganda's country director for the UN's World Food Program, explains.
Critics say America blocked an effort, first mooted at the Stockholm Earth Summit 40 years ago, to make the UN's Environment Programme a fully fledged UN agency.
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In 2007, Vitol was heavily fined by a New York court after admitting making payments to the national oil company in Saddam Hussein's Iraq which were outside the UN's oil for food programme.
In the first Gulf war, the U.S. was able to win the UN's nod.
Ehud Olmert, Israel's outgoing prime minister, urged the UN's secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, to channel all such aid exclusively through the Palestinian Authority, which is run by Hamas's rival, Fatah, headed by Mahmoud Abbas.
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The UN's own cholera expert, Danielle Lantagne, has said that Haiti's outbreak is likely to have come from UN soldiers.
Last week, Mr Ban extended the STL's mandate for three years and reiterated the UN's commitment to uncover the truth behind Hariri's death.
Given America's distaste for international criminal courts under the UN's auspices, it may be only too happy to see him tried by his own people.
On Monday March 21st, Mr Annan presented his recommendations for change, based on the panel's conclusions, to a gathering of the UN's 191-member General Assembly.
As Columbia University's Elliott Sclar, lead author of the UN's 2005 Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers, observes, "secure tenure" would make it easier for slum dwellers to join the formal labor force, knowing that they aren't at risk of arbitrarily being forced from their homes and that their possessions will still be there when they come home from work.
The head of the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, echoed Ms Mercado's warning, saying Syria's conflict was on the verge of overwhelming the UN.
Whether Mr Jagdeo's vision ever materialises depends not just on the UN's deliberations over punctuation, but also on the willingness of powerful players like the European Union to abide by emissions goals that keep the price of carbon high.
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Mr Annan has agonised in public about the UN's failure in Rwanda, when he was head of un peacekeeping, and has argued that his success as a peace-broker in Kenya last year owed something to the existence of R2P as a moral instrument.
There are dozens of experienced local aid organisations already working throughout Somalia - a fact that often gets lost in the furore over al-Shabab's hostile attitude towards some of the bigger international organisations, like the UN's World Food Programme.
Recent examples include Libya's Ali Treki, now serving as the 2009-10 president of the UN General Assembly, as well as backing Sudan, Syria and Iran for important posts overseeing the UN's cultural organization, UNESCO.
Some of Mr Bush's colleagues do not want the weapons inspectors back in Iraq and would like the UN's future involvement to be kept as small as possible.
Mr Annan's spokesman, Ahmed Fawzi, said on Tuesday that an advance team from the UN's Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) would arrive in Damascus "in the next 48 hours" to discuss the deployment of international monitors.
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The WHO's report, which followed a survey of the camps, was consistent with the UN's earlier estimates that around 50, 000 Darfuris have already died from violence and disease, and that around 1.2m have fled their homes, of whom some 200, 000 have fled into neighbouring Chad.
The UN's lawyers are facing a mass compensation claim being pursued by Haitian and US lawyers against the UN.
Any deal would need to constrain Iran's uranium enrichment and subject it to enhanced verification by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear watchdog, all the while helping to advance those bits of the programme that are demonstrably non-military in character.
The acknowledgement that the UN's strategy is fraught with problems comes from Jan Pronk, the special envoy to the WSSD of the UN secretary-general, Kofi Annan.
This campaign has been reflected at the United Nations, where the OIC's 56 members plus the Palestinian observer form one of the biggest and most influential lobbying blocs in the UN's 192-member General Assembly.
The data, released by the UN children's charity and UN population fund on the international day calling for an end to FMG, showed that the younger generation was less vulnerable to female circumcision in 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East where it is usually practised.
The UN's emergency response plan for Syrian refugees, Oxfam said, currently lacked 75% of the funding required.
The UN's nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, has repeatedly accused Iran of not co-operating fully.
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