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U.N. troops walk inside the U.N. Headquarters in Abidjan, Ivory Cost, on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. The United Nations is warning 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)
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The United Nations and other world leaders recognize opposition leader Alassane Ouattara as the winner of the Nov. 28 runoff vote.
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Y.J. Choi, head of the United Nations mission in Ivory Coast, speaks during a press conference at the U.N. Headquarters, in Abidjan, Monday, Dec. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations, Sin Son-ho, declines to answer questions at the United Nations on Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010. The U.N. Security Council is holding an emergency meeting on rising tensions on the Korean peninsula. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)
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Greenpeace activists form the word hope as a question with their bodies, next to a giant life saver, during a demonstration near the site of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Israel Leal)
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Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh delivers a speech during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, Wednesday Dec. 8. (AP Photo/Israel Leal)
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Environmental activists from 350.org, left, demonstrate before the cameras of journalists during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, Thursday Dec. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
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U.N. soldiers helped Haitian police guard polling places, where thousands demonstrated Monday after 12 of 18 candidates called for protests to demand the election be voided.
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People walk past a sand sculpture made by activists of Oxfam, a group of non-governmental organizations, during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Israel Leal)
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Myanmar's pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, shakes hands with Vijay Nambiar, chief of staff for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, after their meeting at her home on Saturday in Yangon, Myanmar. Mrs. Suu Kyi met for more than an hour with Mr. Nambiar and said she hopes the talks will be the first of many with the world body to solve the country's problems. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Former U.N. Ambassador John R. Bolton (Associated Press)
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UN peacekeepers from Brazil are seen through a window glass as they patrol on vehicles in Cap Haitian, Haiti, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. It began as a rumor that farmers saw waste from a U.N. peacekeeping base flow into a river. Within days of the talk, hundreds downstream had died from cholera. (AP photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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A boy reacts to the effects of tear gas fired by police and UN soldiers during a protest in an area where displaced earthquake survivors live in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. Following days of rioting in northern Haiti over suspicions that U.N. soldiers introduced a cholera epidemic that has killed more than 1,000 people, protesters in Haiti's capital clashed with police Thursday lashing out at U.N. peacekeepers and the government, blocking roads and attacking foreigners' vehicles. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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A UN peacekeeper from Brazil shoots tear gas to demonstrators during a protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. Following days of rioting in northern Haiti over suspicions that U.N. soldiers introduced a cholera epidemic that has killed more than 1,000 people, protesters in Haiti's capital clashed with police Thursday lashing out at U.N. peacekeepers and the government, blocking roads and attacking foreigners' vehicles. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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A demonstrator runs to avoid tear gas fired by police and UN soldiers during a protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. Following days of rioting in northern Haiti over suspicions that U.N. soldiers introduced a cholera epidemic that has killed more than 1,000 people, protesters in Haiti's capital clashed with police Thursday lashing out at U.N. peacekeepers and the government, blocking roads and attacking foreigners' vehicles. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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An UN peacekeepers from Brazil falls from his vehicle next to demonstrators during a protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. Following days of rioting in northern Haiti over suspicions that U.N. soldiers introduced a cholera epidemic that has killed more than 1,000 people, protesters in Haiti's capital clashed with police Thursday lashing out at U.N. peacekeepers and the government, blocking roads and attacking foreigners' vehicles (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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U.N. peacekeepers from Brazil patrol in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday Nov. 15, 2010. Protesters who hold Nepalese U.N. peacekeepers responsible for an outbreak of cholera that has killed 1,000 in three weeks threw stones and threatened to set fire to a base in Cap-Haitien, the country's second-largest city Monday, Haitian radio and eyewitnesses reported.(AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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UN peacekeepers from Brazil patrols at a earthquake survivors refugee camp in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday Nov. 15, 2010. Protesters who hold Nepalese U.N. peacekeepers responsible for an outbreak of cholera that has killed 1,000 in three weeks threw stones and threatened to set fire to a base in Cap-Haitien, the country's second-largest city Monday, Haitian radio and eyewitnesses reported.(AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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UN peacekeepers from Brazil patrol in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday Nov. 15, 2010. Protesters who hold Nepalese U.N. peacekeepers responsible for an outbreak of cholera that has killed 1,000 in three weeks threw stones and threatened to set fire to a base in Cap-Haitien, the country's second-largest city Monday, Haitian radio and eyewitnesses reported.(AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Executive Director from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, Yury Fedotov speaks with actor and UNODC Goodwill Ambassador Nicolas Cage, from left, at the conference from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, on transnational organized crime at the UN headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
