A UN sanctions committee report stated that North Korea operates an international smuggling network for nuclear and ballistic missile technology, including to Burma, Syria, and Iran.

KEI is also working with a number of other NGOs to change the mission of the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ), so that it operates more like a true UN agency, with a social rather than a commercial agenda.

Stichting Pantera operates under the principles of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity of 1992.

Members of the Canadian Forces Military Police are also involved in the International Security Assistance Force ( ISAF ), a NATO-led formation that operates in Afghanistan under the authority of the UN.

It operates worldwide charter flights, provides wet lease services to major airlines seeking additional capacity and is also an important provider of air transportation for UN peacekeeping forces.

It operates cargo and passenger air services for humanitarian aid provided by UN MovCon, WFP, UNICEF, UNOPS, ESS, MSF, FAO and IRC, using aircraft and helicopters covering most areas of Sudan.

Under the UN Oil for Food program, Iraq imported large quantities of grains, meat, poultry, and dairy products.

The country consistently contributes large amounts of aid through multilateral channels, especially the UN Development Programme, the international financial institutions, and EU programs.

Most of the UN development and humanitarian agencies have had a large presence in Rwanda.

Iraq also withdraws its last UN declaration of prohibited biological weapons and turns over a large amount of new documents on its WMD programs.

Although a large scale effort at disarming militias has succeeded, with the aid of the UN troops, the last militias are only being disarmed in 2007.

After the 1956 War ( often referred to as the Suez Crisis ), UNTSO greatly assisted the establishment of the United Nations Emergency Force ( UNEF ); in large measure the result of diplomatic efforts of the UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and a proposal from Canadian minister of external affairs Lester Pearson, by providing a group of trained military personnel for peacekeeping and emergency operations to UNEF It was the first time UNTSO's expertise was tapped in order to establish a United Nations Mission.

Nearly 10, 000 Bangladeshi military personnel are deployed overseas on peacekeeping operations, making it a large contributor to the UN peacekeeping forces.

Besides, at the UN and OIC, the two countries are also the founding members of the D-8 8 Countries with six other nations with large Muslim populations.

However, the United Nations projects a U. S. population of 402 million in 2050, an increase of 32 % from 2007 ( the UN projects a gain of 38 % for the world at large ).

In November 1988, Israel was condemned by a large majority of the UN General Assembly for its actions against the intifada.

According to the UN report, the Chechen separatist forces included a large number of children, some as young as 11 and both male and female, during the First Chechen War: " Child soldiers in Chechnya were reportedly assigned the same tasks as adult combatants, and served on the front lines soon after joining the armed forces.

Admitted only in 1955, Ireland played a large role at the UN, serving on the Security Council in 1962, condemning Chinese aggression in Tibet and advocating nuclear arms limitation.

During the attacks, the Chinese assault teams would disperse while masking themselves using the terrain, and this made it difficult for UN defenders to target large number of Chinese troops.

In the UN the EU has gained influence in areas such as aid due to its large contributions in that field ( see below ).

Today Ferney is a peaceful town with a Saturday market and a large international community, due to the proximity of CERN and the UN ( Geneva ).

Iraq by and large refused to cooperate with UNSCOM and its inspections as mandated by UN SC Res.

To a large extent it is the UN member states that have to engage experts into the work and their delegations.

In fact there was a case in UN / CEFACT 2007 where a large SW vendor presented a solution that later was discovered they claim patent rights over.

UN inspectors believe there to be large quantities of weapons materials still unaccounted for.

Iraq also withdraws its last UN declaration of prohibited biological weapons and turns over a large amount of new documents on its WMD programs.

The UN also says that large numbers of refugees have fled the town despite severe winter weather.

In 1974, a large, fortress-like residential compound and school was established in North Riverdale by the Permanent Mission of the USSR to the United Nations ( now the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN ) to house diplomats and their families.

After prolonged negotiations, the U. S. and the UN negotiated an agreement whereby the United States would pay a large part of the money it owes, and in exchange the UN would reduce the assessment rate ceiling from 25 % to 22 %.

The report, produced jointly by the World Bank and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), asserts that half the world's fishing fleet could be scrapped with no change in catch.

The report, produced jointly by the World Bank and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), asserts that half the world's fishing fleet could be scrapped with no change in catch.

Portuguese Navy Marine contingents have also participated in peace-enforcing UN missions in Kinshasa ( Zaire, 1997 ) and Congo ( 1998 ), East Timor ( 1999 – 2004 ), the European Union Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2006, and the NATO fleet off the coast of Somalia, where Portugal's Navy has played a prominent role.

On 6 November 2004, Yamoussoukro Airport was attacked by French infantry after military aircraft from the airport bombed a UN peacekeeper base as well as rebel targets, 9 French peacekeepers and one U. S. civilian were killed.

LMP-103S is UN Class 1. 4S allowing for transport on commercial aircraft and was demonstrated on the Prisma satellite in 2010.

France has also been a lead nation, alongside the USA, Great Britain and Italy in implementing the UN sponsored no-fly zone in Libya, deploying 20 fighter aircraft to Benghazi in defense of rebel held positions and the civilian population.

In July 2003, India announced that it would be sending an additional 300 personnel and combat aircraft from the Indian Air Force to strengthen the UN peacekeeping effort in DRC.

The UN advance ground to a halt in December, then retreated south in early 1951, tactical aircraft continued to support of United Nations forces.

He was a member of International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ) teams, which investigated the Mozambican Tupolev Tu-134 air disaster in South Africa in which the President of Mozambique lost his life, and the shooting down of three civil aircraft: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 over Russia and two United Nations ( UN ) L-130 aircraft in Angola.

Its best-known combat vehicles are the Dardo infantry fighting vehicle, the Centauro tank destroyer and the Ariete tank, and among its aircraft the Mangusta attack helicopter, recently deployed in UN missions.

UN Peacekeepers are carried extensively on the various aircraft in the Fleet and the company also is involved in " wet-leasing " aircraft to air carriers who need extra capacity.

Preventing infiltration at sea created an impossible challenge for the UN Command, which lacked suitable aircraft, ships, radar and communications.