Secret Meeting, Clear Mission: 'Rescue' U.N.
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A group of veteran foreign policy experts counseled U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan in a secret meeting on how to repair lapses in his leadership.
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The announcement of John R. BoltonÂs decision to step down was greeted by United Nations officials with relief.
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The United Nations is sending special teams to Asia to help after the tsunami disaster which the head of UNICEF said had wielded "staggering" power.
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New York - The United Nations last week unveiled a wide-ranging blueprint to reform the organisation, but found media attention more focused on calls for UN secretary-general Kofi Annan to resign.
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The United Nations is adopting  new steps in its global tsunami-relief campaign to guard  against improprieties like those alleged in the oil-for-food  program for Iraq, U.N. officials said Monday.
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An unlikely meeting of minds on an issue of global concern.
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The UN Security Council is to meet behind closed doors today on the crisis threatening to reawaken central Africaâs devastating six nation war in Congo, Africaâs third-largest nation.
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A UN conference on natural disasters adopts a plan to minimise casualties,  but fails to set specific targets.
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There is no doubt that we are in a time of chaos in the world. Wars and genocide are as prevalent as ever.     Misery and suffering are on every continent of the globe we call earth. The world is currently focused on the 'War In Iraq' and the problem of nuclear proliferation in Iran and North Korea but the sad fact is threats to world peace are as prevalent as ever in spite of the efforts of the UN.    Where do we turn? Our respective governments? Grassroots support? Does genocide on the African continent for example even matter?    It is not unreasonable to look to the United Nations for understanding and problem resolution. Presumably, we expect it to be an unbiased and peace loving organization. Yet at closer examination one begins to realize the fact that the United Nations has been a total failure in terms of world peace. Rarely has the UN brought enough countries together to form an alliance to intervene meaningfully in the affairs of an oppressive and brutal country.    With the exception of the World Health Organization little good has come from the peace making mission of the U.N. I suggest the UN go to what it does best. With its world standing already established, the UN should focus on research, education and health, the missions it does best.
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Analysis: The Riga summit was meant to turn around an Alliance mission in trouble. But its a mission for which there's little political will
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GENEVA The United Nations said Friday that workmen had uncovered a sophisticated listening device at its headquarters in Geneva but could not say who planted it or why.
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The whiff of scandal has been swirling around the UN for months. But now Kofi Annan himself, the man handpicked by the Americans to lead the organisation seven years ago, is on the ropes.
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The United Nations said on Thursday a  secret listening device had been found in a posh meeting room  of its European headquarters in Geneva.
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The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday deplored the widespread violence in Kenya and urged political leaders to resolve the crisis over disputed elections through "dialogue, negotiation and compromise."
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This is sad. Kofi Annan convenes a grand council of the great and the good of international diplomacy and asks them to come up with a new charter that re-invents the United Nations.
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A secret listening device has been found at the Geneva offices of the United Nations, the global body said Thursday.
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WASHINGTON -- World leaders meeting yesterday in the Indonesian capital promised more money, more cooperation, and a high-tech disaster early warning system in what UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called "a race against time" to save survivors of the deadly Asian tsunami and protect the region from future danger.