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China's Ambassador Li Baodong, third from right, arrives for consultations at the United Nations on Friday, April 13, 2012. The United Nations Security Council is planning an emergency meeting to discuss Thursday's failed rocket launch by North Korea. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks about the situation in Syria during a news conference Thursday at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva. (Associated Press)

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U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, third from left, is welcomed by Syrian refugee children upon his arrival at Yayladagi refugee camp in Hatay province, Turkey, Tuesday, April 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Umit Bektas, Pool)

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**FILE** Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika arrives Feb. 1, 2010, at the U.N. Conference Hall in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Associated Press)

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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (left), the U.N.-Arab League special envoy to Syria, poses with Maj. Gen. Robert Mood of Norway before a meeting at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva on Wednesday, April 4, 2012. Gen. Mood is heading a planning team for a possible deployment of a U.N. supervision and monitoring mission in Syria. (AP Photo/Keystone/Martial Trezzini)

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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League special envoy for Syria, awaits the arrival of Maj. Gen. Robert Mood from Norway at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva on Wednesday, April 4, 2012. Gen. Mood will lead a team to negotiate the possible deployment of U.N. monitors for any cease-fire between Syrian troops and rebel forces. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)

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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is the joint U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria. (AP Photo/Lintao Zhang, Pool)

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (left) greets former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, in Moscow on Sunday, March 25, 2012. (AP Photo/AP Photo, RIA Novosti Kremlin, Ekaterina Shtukina, Presidential Press Service)

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon waves as he leaves the Institute of Respiratory Medicine in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Thursday, March 22, 2012, after a visit in conjunction with the upcoming World Tuberculosis Day. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (center) and Indonesian Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro (left) applaud as Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono strikes a gong to mark the opening of the Jakarta International Defense Dialogue in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Wednesday, March 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

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** FILE ** U.N. peace envoy Kofi Annan speaks to the media after a meeting with Syrian National Council members in Ankara, Turkey, on Tuesday, March 13, 2012. (AP Photo)

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This image taken from TV Saturday, March 17, 2012, shows a man identified as Randy Michael, who is purported to be an American contractor, in Baghdad, Iraq, after he was released from captivity and handed over to the United Nations by Shiite lawmakers representing the hardline followers of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. (AP Photo/MASAR TV)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses a news conference at United Nations headquarters on March 12, 2012. (Associated Press)

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (center), accompanied by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, poses for photos at the beginning of their bilateral meeting at United Nations headquarters on March 12, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Syrian President Bashar Assad (right) meets with former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the world body's special envoy to Syria, in Damascus, Syria, on Saturday, March 10, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)

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The United Nations is sending two envoys to Syria to press the case to allow humanitarian relief workers unhindered access. These Syrian children fled with their families from Qusair, near Homs, to the Lebanese-Syrian border village of Qaa. (Associated Press)

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Fayssal al-Hamwi, Syria's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, delivers Feb. 28, 2012, his statement to the debate on Syria during the 19th session of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva. (Associated Press/Keystone)