The report will be discussed at a U.N.biodiversity meeting set for October in Nagoya,Japan.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

A U.N.spokesman expressed concern about reports that government shelling has killed civilians.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

They and the European Union say it will violate a U.N.resolution imposed after North Korea conducted at 2006 nuclear weapons test.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

An arms expert said Monday he believed the ship was carrying weapons to Somalia, in contravention of a U.N.arms embargo.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Brussels had indicated that it would lift the embargo if Turkish Cypriots voted in favor of a U.N.-sponsored unification plan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Iran has not given a clear response to a U.N.proposal to send uranium to Russia and France for enrichment.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Captain Camara has promised to cooperate with a U.N.inquiry into the violence and has established his own investigation.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

The Election Complaints Commission, a U.N.-funded watchdog, is ordering all ballots from suspect polling stations recounted and audited.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

That frustrated U.S.President Barack Obama and other world leaders' efforts to forge an international climate agreement at a U.N.summit in Copenhagen last December.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

It is also the subject of a U.N.-backed tribunal which is considering indictments in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Mr.Obama urged Tehran to agree to a U.N.proposal to ship its uranium abroad for processing, adding that time for diplomacy on the issue is running out.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Iran's president also defended statements he made last Monday before a U.N.conference in which he called Israel the most cruel and racist regime in the world.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

He is the first African leader to be tried at a U.N.-backed court.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

The second round was required after a U.N.-backed investigation into the vote found widespread fraud and a third of Mr.Karzai's ballots were declared invalid, reversing his outright victory.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Iran previously rejected a U.N.-mediated proposal along those lines.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03

For the U.N.to keep urging that peace be created first before a U.N.peacekeeping force can be sent continues to deny the Somali people badly-needed international forces to assist in the stabilization of that country,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

He dismissed as "biased and unjust" a U.N.Human Rights Council report that accused Israel of war crimes during its December Gaza offensive, saying his country was acting in self-defense against militant rocket fire.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

South Korea warns any long-range launch by the North will be a violation of a U.N.resolution passed in 2006, when North Korea conducted long-range missile and nuclear weapons tests within months of each other.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

Earlier this month, five World Food Program employees were killed in a suicide blast in neighboring Pakistan, and last week a Pakistani officer assigned to a U.N.peacekeeping mission in Sudan was gunned down while on home leave in Islamabad.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

North Korea announced Tuesday it is leaving the Chinese-sponsored six-party talks on its nuclear program and will restart its plutonium facility at Yongbyon in response to a U.N.Security Council statement condemning its April 5 launch of a long-range ballistic missile.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

Analysts say it remains to be seen whether the Palestinians' unilateral effort to get a U.N.security endorsement of a Palestinian state will be sustained or is no more than a publicity stunt meant to get Israel to make concessions.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Mister Ban, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Haitian President Rene Preval led a conference of donors at the U.N.Wednesday.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

May Rihani from the Global Advisory Committee of the U.N.girls' initiative gave an example from a "life skills" program in Mali.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

The U.N.World Food Program says more than a billion people one in six worldwide do not get enough food to be healthy.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

The Obama administration is pushing for a new U.N.resolution with actions against Iran.

VOA: special.2010.04.17

The governments at the U.N.conference also reached a decision on another pesticide,DDT.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

In a statement,U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his "deep disappointment" with the verdict and said he "strongly deplores" the decision.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

On the Security Council's regular program of work this month will be a debate on the U.N.'s peacekeeping mission in Haiti.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02