The U.N.is expected to launch a formal appeal Friday to fund those emergency needs.

VOA: standard.2010.01.14

Japanese diplomats said their government is likely to call for an emergency meeting of the U.N.Security Council immediately following the North Korean launch to discuss what punitive actions against Pyongyang should be pursued.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

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

Quantum will launch in November 2014 and will homeport in Cape Liberty, in Bayonne, N.

WSJ: Royal Caribbean's ship Quantum of the Seas

While at U.N. headquarters, the Director-General, will, on 19 January, launch the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2010, the flagship report of UNESCO in the field of education, in the presence of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES