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In this image made from television model Naomi Campbell is seen at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, Netherlands, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Special Court for Sierra Leone, via APTN)
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A U.N. peacekeeper waves a U.N. flag as Israeli troops patrol the border in the southern border village of Adaisseh, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. A senior Israeli officer, two Lebanese soldiers and a journalist. were killed in the clashes. Tuesday's fighting was the most serious since a fierce war four years ago. (AP Photo/Ronith Daher)
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U.N. peacekeepers gesture as Israeli troops patrol the border fence in the southern border village of Adaisseh, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Lebanon and Israeli troops exchanged fire on the border Tuesday in the most serious clashes since a fierce war four years ago, and Lebanon said at least two of its soldiers were killed in shelling, authorities said. (AP Photo/Lutfallah Daher)
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Mohammed ElBaradei, former U.N. nuclear chief and Egyptian diplomat (right), speaks during a press conference with Saad al-Katatni, the parliamentary leader of Egypt's largest opposition bloc, the Muslim Brotherhood, after a meeting in Cairo last month. (Associated Press)
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The mothers of three American hikers jailed in Iran -- (from left) Laura Fattal, Cindy Hickey and Nora Shourd -- participate in a demonstration outside Iran's mission to the United Nations in New York on Friday, July 30, 2010. Saturday marked a year since the hikers were arrested along the Iraqi border. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Former U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix arrives to give evidence at the Iraq War Inquiry in London on Tuesday, July 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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** FILE ** In this Feb. 12, 2009 photo released by the United Nations, Inga-Britt Ahlehius, Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services, left, shakes hands with U.N. Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon at United Nations headquarters during a Compact Signing Ceremony for UN senior managers' compacts for 2009. Ms. Ahlehius, the head of the U.N.'s internal watchdog agency, stepped down, heightening the fears of U.S. and some U.N. officials that the much-derided effort to curb corruption in the world body will suffer further blows. (AP Photo/United Nations, Eskinder Debebe)
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In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, who ran the notorious Toul Sleng, a top secret detention center for the worst "enemies" of the state, looks on during his sentencing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, July 26, 2010. The U.N.-backed tribunal has found the former Khmer Rouge chief jailer guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and ordered him to serve 19 years in prison. (AP Photo/ Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)
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In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, who ran the notorious Toul Sleng, a top secret detention center for the worst "enemies" of the state, looks on during his sentencing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, July 26, 2010. The U.N.-backed tribunal has found the former Khmer Rouge chief jailer guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and ordered him to serve 19 years in prison. (AP Photo/ Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)
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In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, spectators watch the sentencing of Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, who ran the notorious Toul Sleng, a top secret detention center for the worst "enemies" of the state, at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, July 26, 2010. The U.N.-backed tribunal found the former Khmer Rouge chief jailer guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and ordered him to serve 19 years in prison. (AP Photo/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)
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In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, who ran the notorious Toul Sleng, a top secret detention center for the worst "enemies" of the state, looks on Monday during his sentencing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The U.N.-backed tribunal has found the former Khmer Rouge chief jailer guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and ordered him to serve 19 years in prison. (Associated Press/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)
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A North Korean soldier looks through a window at Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton while she visits the U.N. truce building in Panmunjom village in the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas on Wednesday, July 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson, pool)
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, walks with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, center, and Catherine Ashton, the European Union foreign policy minister, right, to a group photo after an international conference at the Foreign Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, left, gestures as Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, prepare to pose for a group photo after the Kabul International Conference at the Foreign Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Israel's outgoing U.N. ambassador, Gabriela Shalev (left, in 2008) says the most significant threat to her country is not Iran's belligerence but efforts by European courts and by some U.N. committees to delegitimize the Jewish state. "Israel is the most isolated, lonely country in the world," she told reporters Monday in Washington at a luncheon sponsored by the Israel project.
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Sri Lankan protesters shout slogans as they clash with police outside the UN office during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Police have broken up a blockade of the U.N. office in Sri Lanka's capital and are escorting employees out hours after they were trapped. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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Sri Lankan police officials scuffle with a protester outside the UN office during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Police have broken up a blockade of the U.N. office in Sri Lanka's capital and are escorting employees out hours after they were trapped. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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Sri Lankan protesters perform a witchcraft ceremony to curse UN officials outside the UN office during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Police have broken up a blockade of the U.N. office in Sri Lanka's capital and escorted employees out of the office after hundreds of protesters, led by a government minister, laid siege to the U.N. compound in Colombo on Tuesday, and refused to let the workers out until the world body canceled its investigation of alleged abuses committed during Sri Lanka's civil war. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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Sri Lankan protesters clash with police out side the UN office during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Police have broken up a blockade of the U.N. office in Sri Lanka's capital and are escorting employees out hours after they were trapped. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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Sri Lankan police officials assist UN staffers to leave the UN office during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Police have broken up a blockade of the U.N. office in Sri Lanka's capital and are escorting employees out hours after they were trapped. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
