United Nations

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Illustration: U.N. and Palestine by John Camejo for The Washington Times

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Susan E. Rice (second from right), U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, speaks to reporters at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor on Monday, Sept. 12, 2011. (Christian Science Monitor)

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Associated Press Assistant Secretary of State Esther Brimmer said Wednesday that U.N. reforms could be best achieved with more, rather than less, U.S. involvement.

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A Nigeria policeman stands guard in front of the car-bombed United Nations headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria. The country's president says his government will bring terrorism "under control." The bombing killed 23 people Friday, despite two suspects being arrested beforehand. (Associated Press)

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Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida Republican, wants Congress to block U.S. funding for any U.N. efforts to give Palestinians a heightened status. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS A nurse at the national hospital in Abuja, Nigeria, removes the breathing mask of a man injured in Friday's suicide attack on U.N. headquarters in Abuja so he can speak during a visit by U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro (not seen) on Sunday. Twenty-three died in the suicide car bombing.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS A nurse at the national hospital in Abuja, Nigeria, removes the breathing mask of a man injured in Friday's suicide attack on U.N. headquarters in Abuja so he can speak during a visit by U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro (not seen) on Sunday. Twenty-three died in the suicide car bombing.

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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)