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** FILE ** Members of the United Nations Security Council vote for tough new sanctions to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test, during a meeting at U.N. headquarters on March 7, 2013. (Associated Press)
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Free Syrian Army fighters stand next to United Nations Disengagement Observer vehicles in the southern province of Daraa, Syria, near the Golan Heights, on Wednesday, March 6, 2013, in an image taken from video obtained from Ugarit News and authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting. Clashes between Syrian troops and rebel fighters flared on Thursday near an area where armed fighters linked to the opposition abducted 21 U.N. peacekeepers a day earlier. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)
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Jan Kubis, the top U.N. envoy in Afghanistan, presents the annual U.N. report on Afghan civilian casualties at a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)
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United States Deputy Secretary of State William Burns (left) arrives Jan. 11, 2013, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva for a meeting with U.N. Joint Special Representative for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov (both unseen) to find a politic solution for the crisis in Syria. (Associated Press)
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and U.N. envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi talk during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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George Bush, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, looks through papers during the adoption of the agenda at the United Nations General Assembly at the headquarters in New York, Sept. 22, 1971. The U.S. and 16 other countries called on the General Assembly to seat Communist China in the United Nations while permitting Nationalist China to remain. (AP Photo)
