The Obama administration opposed the resolution. After the measure passed, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the administration does not believe the full House of Representatives will or should vote on the resolution.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

We can change this." On September thirtieth, the United Nations Security Council approved a third resolution against sexual violence in armed conflicts.

VOA: special.2009.10.24

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, the top Republican on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, opposed the resolution.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

On Friday the House of Representatives passed a resolution expressing support for all Iranians who value freedom, human rights and the rule of law.

VOA: special.2009.06.20

The United States did not vote on the cease-fire resolution passed Thursday by the Security Council.

VOA: special.2009.01.10

On Thursday,the Security Council approved a resolution to increase efforts toward a world without nuclear weapons.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

The committee offered the resolution to the convention on December twentieth,eighteen sixty.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

President John Tyler signed the resolution on March first.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

In fact,I would argue that if kids could actually see real live conflict going on that is both frank but also resolvable, it teaches the child to begin to have better conflict resolution."

VOA: special.2011.08.10

Mr.Singh's comments come in the wake of a United Nations Security Council resolution calling on all countries to sign the treaty.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

The General Assembly committee also adopted a resolution on human rights abuses in Burma, which is also known as Myanmar.

VOA: standard.2009.11.20

The Security Council session focused on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, and the resolution urged action to prevent the spread of atomic weapons.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Israel and the United States have urged foreign governments to vote against the resolution on the Goldstone report.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Resolution 1929 increases the pressure on Iran to halt its nuclear activities and come to the negotiating table.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

Negotiations among the five permanent Security Council member states on a new sanctions resolution have been underway in New York for several weeks.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

"Our focus really has been really on winning international enforcement of (resolution) 1874 as well as trying to get the diplomatic process underway.

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

Israel's Cabinet angrily rejected the United Nations resolution, saying the army's three-week assault on the Gaza Strip last December and January was legitimate self-defense.

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

He said lawmakers needed to voice a position before Wednesday's U.N.General Assembly consideration of a resolution supported by Arab countries on the Goldstone report.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

William Burns, under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, told the Senate Armed Services panel he believes China will sign on to a council resolution.

VOA: standard.2010.04.14

The comments followed an overwhelming vote in the U.N.General Assembly on a non-binding resolution condemning the 47-year-old U.S.trade embargo against Cuba and urging Washington to lift the restrictions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Crowley said the United States has a sense of urgency on the sanctions and expects that a draft resolution will be ready for presentation "in the next few weeks."

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

Israel offered less hope of an early resolution to the conflict, when Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Israeli radio Thursday that there is no chance of peace anytime soon.

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

Instead,Posner urged the Council to pass a resolution encouraging Israel to investigate allegations through credible domestic processes and to call on the Palestinians to launch similar investigations to address allegations of Hamas abuses.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

The resolution also imposes sanctions on 40 new entities linked to Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards Corps, the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, and one individual - Javad Rahiqi, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

Clinton says preventing the exploitation and marginalization of girls is no longer an afterthought but a core foreign policy objective of the United States, which is co-sponsoring a Security Council resolution on the issue next week.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

But Marceil said it remained to be decided if there would be a five-way meeting on the subject, or just bilateral contacts on implementing the new U.N.sanctions resolution against Pyongyang approved after its latest nuclear test in late May.

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

But a Swedish diplomat, speaking on behalf of the European Union, which co-sponsored the resolution, said the measure is necessary because similar resolutions asking North Korea to end human rights abuses have gone unheeded for the last four years.

VOA: standard.2009.11.20