United Nations

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United Nations Special Representative Ad Melkert speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Top UN envoy in Iraq Ad Melkert discussed the challenges Iraqis have ahead in his last interview before leaving the country after two years in Baghdad. (AP Photo / Karim Kadim)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS U.N. envoy Ad Melkert discusses the challenges Iraqis have ahead before leaving the country after two years in Baghdad.

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U.N. envoy Ad Melkert gives an interview to the Associated Press in Baghdad on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. The top U.N. diplomat in Iraq, Mr. Melkert discussed the challenges Iraqis have ahead in his last interview before leaving the country after two years there. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro (center) arrives on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, to inspect the damaged U.N. office in Abuja, Nigeria, after a car bombing there on Friday killed 23 people. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

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This image released by Saharareporters shows police and rescue workers after a large explosion struck the United Nations' main office in Nigeria's capital Abuja Friday Aug. 26, 2011, flattening one wing of the building and killing several people. A U.N. official in Geneva called it a bomb attack. The building, located in the same neighborhood as the U.S. embassy and other diplomatic posts in Abuja, had a huge hole punched in it. (AP Photo/Saharareporters)

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This image released by Saharareporters shows debris after a large explosion struck the United Nations' main office in Nigeria's capital Abuja Friday Aug. 26, 2011, flattening one wing of the building and killing several people. A U.N. official in Geneva called it a bomb attack. The building, located in the same neighborhood as the U.S. embassy and other diplomatic posts in Abuja, had a huge hole punched in it. (AP Photo/Saharareporters)

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This image released by Saharareporters shows firefighters and rescue workers after a large explosion struck the United Nations' main office in Nigeria's capital Abuja Friday Aug. 26, 2011, flattening one wing of the building and killing several people. A U.N. official in Geneva called it a bomb attack. The building, located in the same neighborhood as the U.S. embassy and other diplomatic posts in Abuja, had a huge hole punched in it. (AP Photo/Saharareporters)

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This image released by Saharareporters shows an injured man being stretchered down a ladder by firefighters after a large explosion struck the United Nations' main office in Nigeria's capital Abuja Friday Aug. 26, 2011, flattening one wing of the building and killing several people. A U.N. official in Geneva called it a bomb attack. The building, located in the same neighborhood as the U.S. embassy and other diplomatic posts in Abuja, had a huge hole punched in it. (AP Photo/Saharareporters)

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This image released by Saharareporters shows debris after a large explosion struck the United Nations' main office in Nigeria's capital Abuja, Friday, Aug. 26, 2011, flattening one wing of the building and killing several people. A U.N. official in Geneva called it a bomb attack. The building, located in the same neighborhood as the U.S. embassy and other diplomatic posts in Abuja, had a huge hole punched in it. (AP Photo/Saharareporters)

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Unidentified delegates speak together before the opening of the U.N. Human Rights Council's special session on Syria taking place at the U.N.'s European headquarters in Geneva on Monday, Aug. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Keystone/Salvatore Di Nolfi)

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A Cambodian police officer (right) stands near the 11th-century Hindu Preah Vihear temple, near the disputed Cambodia-Thailand border in Preah Vihear province north of Phnom Penh. The U.N.'s highest court on Monday ordered troops from both Thailand and Cambodia to immediately withdraw military forces from disputed areas around the World Heritage temple straddling their border. (Associated Press)

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Attending a State Department dinner on Monday, July 11, 2011, in Washington after talks by the Quartet of Mideast peacekeepers are (from left) U.N. Ambassador Lynn Pascoe, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Quartet's representative. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Illustration: U.N. gun grabbing by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

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Illustration: U.N. CO2

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Prime Minister Hun Sen sought U.N. help in the late 1990s to create the "killing fields" tribunal, though he didn't want a fully international court.

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon won a unanimous vote of confidence Tuesday from the world body's General Assembly. (Associated Press)

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Illustration: United Nations & abortion by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

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Dinka Ngok civilians needing medical assistance, some suffering from gunshot and machete wounds, who were internally displaced as a result of the recent Sudanese conflict, arrive in the town of Turalei after being airlifted from Abyei by U.N. helicopter. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Deputy U.N. Ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi (right) hugs Libya's U.N. Ambassador Mohamed Shalgham after a meeting of the Security Council at United Nations headquarters in February. Tension was high at the time after fighting broke out between pro- and anti-Gadhafi forces.