U.N.ambassadors from the five Council members and Germany met two times this week in New York.

VOA: special.2010.04.17

The N.E.A.and the National Parent-Teacher Association established Teacher Appreciation Week.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

The U.S.-sponsored Security Council resolution, expected to win easy approval next week, will create a special representative to the U.N.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

The secretary of state joined her counterpart from the Netherlands, Maxime Verhagen,at a meeting at U.N.headquarters Friday previewing next week's council meeting.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

In addition,she says the U.N.agency is providing an initial two-week supply of food to 41,000 people in Niger.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

The watchdog group, partly appointed by the U.N., is overseeing the complaints of voter fraud and other irregularities reported since last week's balloting.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

The Iranian press reported earlier this week that Tehran was ready to accept the general framework of the U.N.draft deal, but was insisting on some "important changes."

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Last week in New York, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki invited diplomats from all 15 U.N.Security Council member countries, including the United States, to an unusual dinner meeting.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

Mitchell is working to mediate a meeting with Mr.Netanyahu, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and U.S.President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the U.N.General Assembly next week in New York.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

It was a swift and angry reaction from Israel when the Palestinians said this week they would push unilaterally for the U.N.Security Council to endorse an independent state for them.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

The talks taking place this week in Barcelona will be the last before a major U.N.summit in December where delegates will hash out a new deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

He was referring to a resolution by the U.N.Human Rights Council last week which approved the Goldstone Report, accusing the Jewish state of war crimes during the Gaza conflict last December and January.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

U.N.chief Ban Ki-moon told reporters he would go to the Danish capital next week to open the high-level segment that he expects will draw more than "I am encouraged and I am optimistic.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

U.S.officials hope it can be convened before key big-power discussions of the Iranian nuclear issue begin in New York during the third week of this month, on the sidelines of the U.N.General Assembly session.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

Last week,U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon removed Kai Eide's deputy, U.S.diplomat Peter Galbraith, from his post after Galbraith accused his boss of failing to provide Afghan and international officials with evidence of fraud, primarily by Mr.Karzai's supporters.

VOA: standard.2009.10.07

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

Richard Goldstone, who headed the U.N.inquiry, wrote last week to the Democratic chairman and senior Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Howard Berman and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, demanding changes to correct what he called serious factual inaccuracies.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04