United Nations

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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)

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the London Conference on Somalia at Lancaster House in London on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool)

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High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay speaks Feb. 13, 2012, during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters to discuss the human rights situation in Syria. (Associated Press)

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Russian representative Vitaly Churkin delivers remarks Feb. 13, 2012, during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters to discuss the human rights situation in Syria. (Associated Press)

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Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby (left) and Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Althani (right), the Qatari prime minister, attend a meeting in Cairo on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012, at which the organization considered a proposal to revive its suspended observer mission in Syria by expanding it to include monitors from non-Arab Muslim nations and the United Nations. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

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The Arab League's Syria group meets in Cairo on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012, as the league considers a proposal to revive its suspended observer mission in Syria by expanding it to include monitors from non-Arab Muslim nations and the United Nations, officials from the 22-member group said. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

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Palestinian demonstrators surround the convoy of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as it enters the Erez border crossing between Israel and Gaza on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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A giant blue chair bearing the words "Palestine's Right: Full Membership in the United Nations" sits in the central square of Ramallah in the West Bank, reinforcing Palestinians' ultimate goal to all who pass by. (Ben Birnbaum/The Washington Times)

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Residents wave anti-EU flags as they watch a live broadcast from the U.N. court on the verdict for a key wartime Croatian commander, Gen. Ante Gotovina, in Zagreb, Croatia, in April. Croatia signed an EU accession treaty last year and is set to become a member in July 2013, if the Croats say "yes" in the referendum and all of the bloc's 27 states later ratify the deal. (Associated Press)

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) and Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati attend the opening session of a conference on democracy in the Arab world in Beirut on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai shakes hands with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (center), while German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (right) stands next to them at the International Afghanistan Conference in Bonn on Monday. (Associated Press)

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Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the U.N.

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** FILE ** Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra answers reporters questions during a joint press conference with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, on Wednesday Nov. 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Damir Sagolj, Pool)

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, has said the United Nations too often becomes a forum for tyrants when it should promote democracy and human rights. (Associated Press)

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Former businessman Herman Cain has said he would change some of the U.N.'s rules. Mr. Cain, a GOP presidential hopeful, says he admires the hard-line foreign-policy views of a former U.S. envoy to the U.N.

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A U.S. soldier checks the damage at offices of the U.N.'s refugee agency, the UNHCR, caused by a suicide bomber in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Oct. 31, 2011. The attack killed four people and severely damaged the U.N. agency's building, Afghan officials said. (Associated Press)