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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the joint U.N.-Arab League special envoy for Syria, briefs the press at the United Nations in Geneva on Friday, June 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)
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This two picture combo shows from left; a Feb. 1, 2012, file photo of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as he arrives at the Supreme Court in London, and a June 20, 2012, photo of Ecuador's President Rafael Correa during a meeting at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Left photo — AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File; right photo — AP Photo/Victor Caivano, File)
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Environmental activists, one portraying Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff holding a banner symbolizing "dirty money" made from fossil fuel subsidies, protest on the final day of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, June 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gives a speech June 22, 2012, at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro. (Associated Press)
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Kofi Annan (right), Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League for Syria, and Major-General Robert Mood, head of the U.N. Supervision Mission in Syria and Chief Military Observer, look on during a news briefing June 22, 2012, at the United Nations in Geneva. (Associated Press)
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Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad poses June 20, 2012, for a photo at the United Nations conference on sustainable development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro. (Associated Press)
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Illustration U.N. Treaty by John Camejo for The Washington Times
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UN observers welcome their comrades upon their return from al-Haffa, in northern Syria, to Damascus, Syria on Saturday, June 16, 2012. U.N. Observers in Syria suspended their activities and patrols Saturday because of escalating violence in the country, the head of the mission said, the strongest sign yet that an international peace plan for Syria is disintegrating. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)
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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi waves as she arrives at the 101st conference of the International Labor Organization at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva on Thursday, June 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)
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This image made from video released by the United Nations Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) and accessed on Saturday, June 9, 2012, purports to show a U.N. observer near a destroyed bus after overnight fighting in Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo/UNSMIS via AP Video)
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United Nations-Arab League special envoy to Syria Kofi Anan addresses the United Nations General Assembly on the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, Thursday, June 7, 2012, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)