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Prison wardens stand guard in Somaliland's new maximum security prison at Hargeisa that was refurbished with money provided by the United Nations. Officials hope the facility may be able to start taking Somali pirates convicted in other countries. The U.N. plans to build two more prisons in Somalia to hold an influx of convicted pirates. (Associated Press)
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President Obama speaks at the dedication of the Ronald H. Brown United States Mission to the United Nations Building in New York on Tuesday, March 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Obama speaks Tuesday at the dedication of the Ronald H. Brown United States Mission to the United Nations Building in New York. (Associated Press)
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U.N. peacekeepers from Brazil stand guard at the gate of a polling station ahead of Sunday's second round of presidential elections in the Cite Soleil section of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday, March 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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The Japanese national flag flies outside of the United Nations building that hosts the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, office, in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, March 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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U.N. peacekeepers patrol in Abyei, Southern Sudan, on Friday, March 11, 2011. Scores of villagers have died in recent fighting in Southern Sudan despite the presence of 10,000 U.N. troops mandated with protecting civilians. Now, internal documents say U.N. officials have ordered the peacekeepers not to operate in an area where civilians are at risk in upcoming battles, after being asked to avoid the region by the south's military. (AP Photo/Tim Freccia)
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A resident of Ghana displays a piece of paper mentioning his nationality as he waits with other refugees to enter Tunisia after fleeing Libya on the Libya-Tunisia border in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Tuesday, March 1 , 2011.U.N. refugee agency spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said Tuesday "the situation is reaching crisis point" at the Libya-Tunisia border where authorities say up to 75,000 people have fled Libya since Feb. 20. (AP Photo/Giorgos Moutafis)
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** FILE** Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (Associated Press)
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Catherine Ashton, European high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, speaks during the opening session of the 16th Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva on Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Keystone/Salvatore Di Nolfi)
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon greets Libya's U.N. ambassador, Mohamed Shalgham, after a meeting of the Security Council at the United Nations in New York on Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor awaits the start of the prosecution's closing arguments during his war crimes trial at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, Netherlands, on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Jerry Lampen, Pool)
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U.N. soldiers escort U.N. staff based in Egypt after they arrive in Cyprus' Larnaca airport, Thursday, Feb. 3 2011. The United Nations is evacuating its 350 Egypt-based staff members to the east Mediterranean island due to security concerns. Around 150 U.N. staff and their dependents arrived aboard a U.N. chartered flight from Cairo on Thursday. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
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In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos shakes hands with women in a camp of displaced people in Galkayo town in Somalia. The U.N. and aid agencies are warning of a possible catstrophe in Somalia, where a severe drought has plunged millions of Somalis into crisis. The drought has increased the number of malnourished children, displaced thousands of people and killed thousands of animals. (AP Photo/Malkhadir Muhumed)
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** FILE ** Navanethem Pillay, U.N. high commissioner for human rights, speaks about the humanitarian situation in Tunisia during a news conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi)
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**FILE** U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (The Washington Times)
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Lebanese soldiers man armored vehicles to keep order in Beirut as Hezbollah party supporters gather in the streets early Tuesday after a U.N. tribunal filed indictments in the assassination of a former prime minister. (Associated Press)
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"Cutting the [U.N.] budget is not enough, because you need to reform the monster, you need to reform the beast, and if you don't get fundamental reform, you are still rewarding a corrupt, mismanaged agency," said House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. (Associated Press)
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"Cutting the [U.N.] budget is not enough, because you need to reform the monster, you need to reform the beast, and if you don't get fundamental reform, you are still rewarding a corrupt, mismanaged agency," said House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. (Associated Press)
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U.N. troops walk inside the U.N. Headquarters in Abidjan, Ivory Cost, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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U.N. troops walk inside their compound in Abidjan, Ivory Cost, on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. The United Nations has warned supporters of incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo that an attack on the hotel where the internationally recognized winner of last month's election is based could reignite civil war. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
