Analysis: U.S. expected little at U.N.
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U.S. officials had low expectations for the current U.N. meetings, marked by anti-American insults heaped on President Bush, and have scant accomplishments to show so far.
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ELECTION: Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari complained that the United Nations has not done enough to help prepare the country&#39;s January elections, saying it has not sent enough election workers to help with the vital balloting.
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Does access to fuel ease nations toward nuclear weapons? Rising demand has nonproliferation experts unsettled.
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United Nations officials fear that Secretary General Kofi Annan may have lost the confidence of the organization&#39;s most powerful constituent, the United States.
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UNITED NATIONS: A global effort to fight poverty with better population management that UN officials once hoped could &quot;change the world&quot; has made limited progress after one decade, a new UN study said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK: Kofi Annan&#39;s plan to more than double the international peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo has received a frosty reception at the UN Security Council.
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A top State Department official said yesterday that a U.N. envoy's meeting with Burma's leadership this month has yielded little progress and that the United States will push ahead next month for passage of a "strongly critical" U.N. Security Council resolution.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - The United States stopped  short of endorsing Brazil's ambition for a permanent seat on an  expanded U.N. Security Council but did say the country would be  a "solid candidate."
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Bolton could be good at hammering out resolutions, but on U.N reform the verdict against him is grim.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22  - Gloomy news about Iraq and the Middle East peace process on Wednesday overshadowed the second day of the UN&#39;s annual gathering of world leaders.
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UNITED NATIONS -- Despite an appearance at the United Nations that was friendlier and more optimistic than any of his previous speeches to the world body, President Bush still faces a skeptical crowd at the UN.
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The United States should give the  United Nations until the end of the year to reform and then  consider cutting back on its U.N. dues if the changes fall  short, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said on Monday.
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Analysis: Washington has done more than any other power to end the crisis in Darfur, but the U.S. has little direct leverage over Sudan
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A U.N. peacekeeping mission  seeking to restore order in impoverished, unstable, Haiti has  been hampered by a shortage of promised international troops  and police, a U.N. official said on Thursday.
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Britain, Germany, France,  Russia, and China rallied around U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan on Thursday, but President Bush did not explicitly  endorse the U.N. chief, under fire over suspected corruption in  the now-defunct Iraq humanitarian program.
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UNITED NATIONS, New York Despite an appearance before the General Assembly that was friendlier and more optimistic than any of his previous speeches to it, President George W. Bush still faces a skeptical crowd at the United Nations.
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WASHINGTON -- The United Nations special representative for Iraq yesterday painted a bleak picture of the situation on the ground and ruled out a large-scale return of UN personnel to Iraq, despite mounting US and Iraqi pressure for more UN help with elections that are slated for January.