The main question raised by the incident is how much longer will UN bury its head in the sand on the Congo problem instead of facing the bitter fact that it has no solution in present terms??

There should even be no more bitter surprises in the UN General Assembly as to NATO members' votes, since a new ad hoc NATO committee has been set up so that in the future such topics as Angola will be discussed in advance.

Egypt's Ambassador to the UN has also stated " The question is why all of a sudden, when third world labour has proved to be competitive, why do industrial countries start feeling concerned about our workers?

It has built a tradition of participating in UN peacekeeping missions such as in Haiti and East Timor.

In the UN and other human rights fora, Cameroon's non-confrontational approach has generally led it to avoid criticizing other countries.

The UN General Assembly has adopted, in 2007, 2008 and 2010, non-binding resolutions calling for a global moratorium on executions, with a view to eventual abolition.

The second was by former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who has rallied the world community to support UN sanctions against Zimbabwe, denouncing the regime's leaders as a " criminal cabal ".

The UN operates a large fleet of aircraft and helicopters, and compared to other African countries the DRC has a large number of small domestic airlines and air charter companies.

He is still seeking greater autonomy from China, although Dolma Gyari, deputy speaker of the parliament-in-exile has stated " If the middle path fails in the short term, we will be forced to opt for complete independence or selfdetermination as per the UN charter ".

Ecuador has offered humanitarianian aid to many countries and a supporter of the United Nations and is now contributing troops in the UN mission in Haiti.

Ecuador has also been an elective member of the UN Security Council.

According to a UN report in 2007, Afghanistan has received over $ 3. 3 billion from its expatriate community in 2006.

The first two regular battalions of the Fiji Infantry Regiment are traditionally stationed overseas on peacekeeping duties ; the 1st Battalion has been posted to Lebanon, Iraq, and East Timor under the command of the UN, while the 2nd Battalion is stationed in Sinai with the MFO.

Some countries may denote specific representatives to the FAO, for instance the United States Ambassador to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, who has ambassador rank and is also part of the United States Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome.

Gabon has been a strong proponent of regional stability, and Gabonese armed forces played an important role in the UN Peacekeeping Mission to the Central African Republic ( MINURCA ).

Ghana has been extremely active in international peacekeeping activities under UN auspices in Lebanon, Afghanistan, Rwanda, and the Balkans, in addition to an eight-year sub-regional initiative with its ECOWAS partners to develop and then enforce a cease-fire in Liberia.

Ghana has participated in other international peacekeeping efforts as well, sending soldiers to operations of the United Nations ( UN ) in Cambodia in 1992-93 and Rwanda in 1993-94.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has called for sanctions against those involved in Guinea-Bissau's drugs trade.

Guyana has sought to keep foreign policy in close alignment with the consensus of CARICOM members, especially in voting in the UN, OAS, and other international organizations.

" The UN has estimated that the nuclear weapon tests in Kazakhstan caused about 100, 000 people to suffer over three generations.

Since World War II France has been a leading member in the UN, the European Union and NATO, and remains a strong economic, cultural, military and political influence in the 21st century.

An IRIN news report of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs noted: " Hezbollah not only has armed and political wings – it also boasts an extensive social development program.

However, it has been suggested that the recent change in the European Union's position regarding the many organizations " that have been too easily included in the UN terror list " might have influenced the UN's position.

During a UN mission in the northern part of the country in November 2006, the mission had a meeting with a prefect who said that he could not maintain law and order over the military and the presidential guards.

It was also at this juncture that the US Ambassador to the UN, John Foster Dulles, said, " From the point of view of justice, the opinions of the Eritrean people must receive consideration.

UN officials familiar with the issue said remittances to Afghanistan could have been more if the banking regulations are more convenient.

Over 100 Lebanese refugees were killed by the shelling of a UN base at Qana, in what the Israeli military said was a mistake.

" However, in these UN statements it was never made clear that it was only Iraq that was using chemical weapons, so it has been said that " the international community remained silent as Iraq used weapons of mass destruction against Iranian as well as Iraqi Kurds " and it is believed that the " United States prevented the UN from condemning Iraq ".

In the hearings before the Ad Hoc Political Committee that considered Israel's application for membership in the United Nations, Abba Eban said that the rights stipulated in section C. Declaration, chapters 1 and 2 of UN resolution 181 ( II ) had been alluded to in the fundamental law of the state of Israel as proposed by the resolution.

In June 2011, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi said his father would agree to internationally monitored general elections, and would step down if he lost them, but his offer was refused by the rebels and ignored by the UN Security Council.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal on 24 September 2009, the day after his address to the UN General Assembly in New York, Colonel Gaddafi said: " As a case, the Lockerbie question: I would say it's come to an end, legally, politically, financially, it is all over.

Lim had said Malaysia must play a proactive role in pursuing regional initiatives to bring about a change in Burma and support efforts to bring the situation in Burma to the UN Security Council's attention.

Official websites said that '.. To this end the RSLAF has targeted 2007 as the base year to initiate a Company for Peace Support Operations for the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ), the African Union and the UN.

On February 12, 1967, it said it would welcome a UN investigation.

Belgrade proposed that Kosovo be highly autonomous and remain a part of Serbia — Belgrade officials repeatedly said that an imposition of Kosovo's independence would be a violation of Serbia's sovereignty and therefore contrary to international law and the UN Charter.

Concluding that there was little hope of the two sides reconciling their positions independently, Ahtisaari said he would submit to the UN Security Council his own proposed status arrangements, including an explicit recommendation for the status outcome itself, by the end of March.

The US Permanent Representative to the UN said that the European / US draft had enough support in the Security Council to be adopted unless Russia chose to object.

Hammarskjöld, answering Soviet attacks against his Congo operations, said that if the UN forces were withdrawn from the Congo " I fear everything will crumble.

When the ICC President reported to the UN regarding its progress handling these crimes against humanity case, Judge Phillipe Kirsch said " The Court does not have the power to arrest these persons.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said of her, " I met her yesterday and I found her quite impressive.

A UN official said these stories were untrue.

Among the speakers was Canadian social activist and author Naomi Klein and Bolivian President Evo Morales, who firmly said in his talk, “ We are going to go to the UN to declare that water is a basic public need that must not be managed by private interests, but should be for all people, including people of rural areas .” The Forum was at first plagued with logistical problems, as a number of events had to be canceled at the last minute because of a lack of space, and a student strike against the policies of President Abdoulaye Wade in Diop University interrupted some scheduled plenaries.

South African Judge Richard Goldstone, author of the UN Goldstone Report, writing in The New York Times in October 2011, said that " in Israel, there is no apartheid.

His uncle, Habibullah Karzai, served as representative of Afghanistan at the UN and is said to have accompanied King Zahir Shah in the early 1960s to the United States for a special meeting with U. S. President John F. Kennedy.

Responding to the attack during the ceremony, the UN said the attackers " have shown their utter disrespect for the history and people of Afghanistan.

In his opening address Secretary General of UN, Ban Ki-Moon said, " some nations who by rights should be helping us to forge a path to a better future are not here.