U.N. Official Urges Political Independence
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The United Nations should find ways to demonstrate political independence, regain the neutrality it lost after the Sept. 11 attacks and better communicate with the world's 1 billion Muslims, a top U.N. official said Monday.
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The world must not neglect Afghanistan now that its presidential election is over because upcoming parliamentary and local elections will be far harder to manage, a top U.N. official said on Tuesday.
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The United Nations on Thursday urged  Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and his opponents to use  talks set for next week to untangle the political deadlock  which is obstructing elections in the war-divided country.
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The United Nations secretary-general, Kofi Annan, has appealed to the European Union to play a bigger role in UN peacekeeping operations.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan sought European support Friday for his plan to give regional heavyweights such as Brazil and Japan more clout at the United Nations.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday stressed the importance of persuading as many Iraqis as possible to participate in the general elections scheduled for January.
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Palestinian officials appealed Thursday for international monitors to help with their presidential elections and urged Israel's unilateral plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip be folded into a stalled international peace plan.
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For Kosovo's ethnic Albanians, a new U.N. proposal opens the door to their long-awaited dream of independence, while prompting Serbia's leaders to warn of secession.Comment
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The United Nations urgently needs  international support to boost its presence in Somalia and  restore basic services, or the country could collapse into  chaos, U.N. aid officials said on Monday.
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Lebanese presidential elections must be free of violence and foreign interference, the U.N. Security Council said Thursday, joining an international chorus pressuring the Arab country's rival political forces to advance a process whose delay could split Lebanon apart.
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The U.N. Security Council  exhorted Western Sahara's independence movement and Morocco on  Wednesday to put more effort into talks on the territory's  future that have marked time since opening in June.
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A Libyan minister tells the United Nations General Assembly that it deserves a permanent seat on the Security Council.
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The U.N. secretary-general called Wednesday for an end to "foreign interference" that has exacerbated Lebanon's political crisis and said he had received more information that Syria was involved in sending weapons and fighters across the border.
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Key countries involved in Afghanistan urged the United Nations on Sunday to expand its role there, but Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said continuing violence kept the world body from operating in some areas.
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The U.N. Secretary-General urged Iraqis to take advantage of the recent decrease in violence and deaths to work across ethnic, sectarian and political lines for national reconciliation.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called Monday on the Iraqi government to do more to foster national unity, warning the violence-ridden country was in "grave danger" of collapsing into civil war.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan wanted to know the challenges of our time and whether reform within the UN is necessary to meet the challenges of new threats.