U.N. powers use Council to push own agendas: SAfrica
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Some of the five permanent members of  the United Nations Security Council are using their clout to  raise issues that do not belong in the decision-making body,  South Africa&#39;s foreign minister said on Tuesday.
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Members of the UN Security Council Monday visited the Congo, one of the conflict-ridden countries the world body is seeking to bring peace and stability.
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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 panel commissioned by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to draft a plan to broaden the UN Security Council is expected to issue its recommendations tomorrow.
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The Security Council renewed the  mandate of the struggling U.N. peace force on the  Eritrea-Ethiopia border for six months on Wednesday despite a  request from Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for just one month.
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Myanmar accused unnamed U.N.   Security Council powers on Tuesday of abusing their role by   putting the isolated Southeast Asian nation on the list of   countries deemed a threat to international peace and security.
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The Security Council renewed the mandate of the struggling U.N. peace force on the Eritrea-Ethiopia border for six months on Wednesday despite a request from Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for just one month.
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A United Nations panel has called for the UN&#39;s main decision-making body, the security council, to be expanded from 15 to 24 members, giving broader representation to developing countries.
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The U.N. Security Council  upbraided Myanmar on Thursday for slow progress on democratic  reforms as the world body's special envoy said the junta there  was trying to delay his next visit until April.
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With the U.N. Security Council meeting this week to consider whether to impose sanctions on Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took aim at the body Tuesday, saying the United States' permanent inclusion on the council undermines its effectiveness and credibility.
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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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UNITED NATIONS - Facing a surge of attacks around the globe, the UN Security Council on Friday voted unanimously to step up its campaign against terror but backed away from authorizing a new list of terrorists who could be subject to sanctions and
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Japan, Brazil, Germany and India formed a lobbying group on Tuesday to help one another get permanent seats on the U.N. Security Council and head off proposals that might work against them.
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On the eve of a Security Council session in Kenya to galvanize talks to end the long-running civil conflict in southern Sudan, the top United Nations envoy for Africa&#39;s largest country, Jan Pronk, has discussed the world body&#39;s role with rebel leader John
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The UN Security Council on Wednesday pressed all parties in the Darfur conflict to attend upcoming talks in Libya and threatened sanctions against whomever impedes the faltering peace process.
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The Security Council examined the role of natural resources such as diamonds, poppies and oil in driving conflicts and destabilizing nations, angering some countries that accused the U.N.'s most powerful body of trying to undermine their sovereignty.
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A powerful group of developing countries has accused Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of trying to downgrade the U.N.'s focus on Africa by consolidating several key posts without General Assembly approval.