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She said the draft resolution could be quick-circulated among members of the UN Security Council later today.

Whether you think the UN can accomplish a little or a lot, a better Security Council would be able to get more done.

Officials said the U. S. wants any sanctions to be imposed with the U. N. Security Council and European allies.

Juppe said he thought this time that the five permanent Security Council members should have a direct role in shepherding talks.

But Sarkozy also said the Palestinians were mistaken to seek full recognition as a state at the security council.

Caitlin Hayden, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council, said the White House was looking into the matter.

Since the crises erupted in Tunisia and Egypt, the National Security Council staff has been meeting six, sometimes seven, days a week.

In the build-up to the war, then U. S. Secretary of State Colin Powell laid out the case against Iraq before the U. N. Security Council.

U. S. officials said the launch, under whatever guise, violated the Security Council resolution. The U.

It also surprised me that, again, they were allowed to become a member of the U. N. Security Council.

Also the main reason why it has never been appointed as a non-permanent member of the Security Council.

If Japan does eventually earn a place in the UN Security Council, I can only hope the delegates are the designers of Monokuro Boo .

This comes one day after a senior Chinese official told the United Nations Security Council China is more than ready to help.

In light of this spirit, China disagrees of a Security Council resolution on the launch, let alone new sanctions against the DPRK.

It also urges that, if the experts are not satisfied, the Security Council should refer the matter to the ICC prosecutor.

That will ensure its speedy conversion into a Security Council resolution to declare Israel the occupying power of a UN member state.

But the toughest condemnation, in the form of a Security-Council resolution, needs China's support, or at least abstention.

But such a move would have to be coordinated with NATO, and would require a Security Council resolution, diplomats said.

Russia has veto power in the U. N. Security Council and can stop the passage of any resolution against the volatile Middle Eastern nation.

The U. S. will continue over the next several months to try to push sanctions through the Security Council.

Clark said she felt that the case for war had not been made - she wanted a UN security council resolution as a basic condition.

If it were to become a temporary Security Council member, Venezuela would not be able to veto any action.

There have been a few notable exceptions, sanctioned by the UN Security Council, but these have been rare and post facto.

For years it had used the threat of its veto to keep North Korean adventurism off the Security Council's agenda.

South Africa cannot block the unfreezing of the rest of Libya's assets indefinitely, as it has no veto at the UN Security Council.

The specific powers granted to the Security Council for the discharge of these duties are laid down in Chapters VI, VII, VIII, and XII.

Until today, it was the only permanent member of the United Nations security council not to participate.

"Today the Security Council has failed to live up to its responsibility, " German Ambassador Peter Wittig said.

As a first step, Seoul had referred the matter to the United Nations Security Council.

South Korea's foreign minister has said the case could be referred to the UN Security Council.

The series of meetings come a week before the full U. N. Security Council is to hear an I. A. E. A. report on Iran.

The US president was dismissive of Abbas's plan to ask the security council to recognise Palestine as a state.

South Korea plans to refer the matter to the U. N. Security Council as soon as this week.

The matter was debated in the Security Council of the United Nations.

Wu said the UN Security Council reforms and India's attempts for a permanent membership would not be discussed at the summit.

Mr. Kaim said his government would ask the United Nations Security Council to convene an extraordinary session to discuss the matter.

In an address to the UN Security Council, Mr Ban said he was gravely concerned about civilian fatalities.

Students were eager to ask about U. S. policy on Kashmir, Iraq, additions to the U. N. Security Council and terrorism.

It would be easy to nominate new members to the Security Council, said Henry Kissinger, but difficult with the increased number of vetoes .

What we have extant right now, at the beginning of this system, is the U. N. Security Council as a grand jury. What can they do?

he said in endorsing Security Council Resolutin 1441, council members assumed a heavy responsibility to put their will behind their words.

Mr Obama's aides fret that Ms Merkel sometimes prefers the company of China and Russia over that of the US in the UN Security Council.

He said the IAEA's board of governors should condemn Tehran and that the Security Council should take up the matter.

The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet and, since the Clinton years, has sat on the United States National Security Council.

He said Iran should be referred to the Security Council for action.

China is one of five veto-wielding permanent members of the U. N. Security Council and its support is crucial in efforts to reform U.

China had always been a UN Security Council member, and since 1990 was acknowledged as an economic powerhouse.

U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called it a "transparent ploy" by Iran to avoid United Nations Security Council sanctions.

President Obama said he was disturbed by the attack on the British embassy. The U. N Security Council also condemned the incident.

The African Union has called on the United Nations Security Council to give backing to an air and naval blockade of Somalia.

Mr. Rui recalls asking Mr. Boutros- Ghali which nation he might select if there were a sixth member of the United Nations Security Council.

The United States did not vote on the cease-fire resolution passed Thursday by the Security Council.

It is a unique coincidence that this year all the BRICS countries are also members of the United Nations Security Council.

That would not need Security Council approval and elevate the Palestinians' U. N. status to that of the Vatican.

We believe that this meeting of the Security Council will play a positive role in the joint effort to cope with this challenge.

The United Nations Security Council has not lived up to its responsibilities, so we will rise to ours.

Under pressure from America, its ally and mentor, Japan agreed to withdraw its Security Council resolution for a few days.

Will China touch upon the question of Japan's greater role in United Nations Security Council during his visit?

And whenever reform of the UN Security Council comes up, its name is always among those mooted for a possible new permanent seat.

And the Security Council is calling for the resumption of the Six-Party talks which had been stalled since 2008.

The sanctions regime which the Security Council Imposed on Iraq actually has no parallel in the history of the United Nations.

It is of great significance for the Security Council to hold this meeting when the Middle East issue is at a crucial juncture.

Adoption of the new resolution by the Security Council does not mean the door to diplomatic efforts is closed.

The discussions opened Friday in Almaty, Kazakhstan among the five permanent members of the U. N. Security Council, plus Germany and Iran.

The Security Council is an important avenue to international legitimacy, but certainly not the only one.

If it were ever to stray on to questions like Iran, then the divisions that too often cripple the Security Council would simply reappear.

But if so, that still does not alter the fact that the Security Council did not authorize war.

The U. N. Security Council voted unanimously to impose punishing sanctions on North Korea for carrying out a nuclear test.

The 35-nation board could, at either meeting, decide to refer the matter to the Security Council.

If the U. S. can take non-Security-Council authorized preemptive or preventive military action, then other countries can as well.

Kiir said he welcomes Yang as the first foreign minister from a permanent member country of the UN Security Council to visit South Sudan.

But China's interests in Sudan and Burma go beyond that of an interested Security Council member.

The General Assembly and the Security Council can ask the Court for an advisory opinion on any legal question.

Today's international institutions, like the UN Security Council, no longer reflect reality and must be democratised.

Instead, they expected to begin talks aimed at persuading China not to veto a strong condemnation of North Korea at the security council.

But he is the servant of an often divided Security Council and has limited power of his own.

The pending Security Council action follows a June resolution with which Iran failed to comply.

As the debate heads into the U. N. Security Council, policy is at a standstill.

Germany has helped to stabilise the Balkans and is the only non-permanent member of the Security Council working on Iran's nuclear threat.

The meeting comes ahead of a likely U. S. -led push in the U. N. Security Council for new sanctions against Iran.

His talks with leaders at every stop left him with laryngitis by the time he returned to brief the Security Council Wednesday afternoon.

The group plans to submit the petition to the U. N. Security Council in around two weeks, when it hopes to have more than one million names.

He also has served as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency and was a member of the National Security Council.

Diplomats said the proposed compromise would see Abbas submit his letter to the security council, which would then defer action.

And last week, the United States led an effort to put Burma, for the first time in history, on the agenda of the U. N. Security Council.

China continued protesting in the U. N. Security Council that there was not enough proof to implicate the North.

On Thursday, NATO foreign ministers expressed support for a proposed third set of sanctions in the United Nations Security Council.

China stands for a primary role by the United Nations and its Security Council in the international efforts against terrorism.

Koussa expressed regret over the Security Council resolution, complaining that it would increase the suffering of the Libyan people.

China is the only permanent member of the U. N. Security Council without an aircraft carrier.

Gaddafi said the security council should be renamed "the terror council" .

Decisions of the Security Council on procedural matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of nine members.

The Security Council needs to be large enough to be representative, but small enough to do business.

Among Mr Bush's first orders to his National Security Council in January 2001 was the drawing up of a new policy on Sudan.

President Obama is to be thanked for making nuclear proliferation the theme of this week's United Nations Security Council meeting.

In New York, the United States said it hoped a UN Security Council vote on sanctions could be held by the end of the week.

Special sessions shall be convoked by the Security Council or of a majority of the Members of the United Nations.

The Secretary- General is appointed by the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the Security Council.

'They're prepared to work with us, ' said Jeffrey Bader, the National Security Council's chief China expert.

South Korea and Japan have condemned the launches as provocative and a breach of a recent UN Security Council resolution.

Brazil, India, Germany and Japan are negotiating with African nations in an effort to win permanent seats on the U. N. Security Council.

But few Palestinians would risk relying on the Security Council, where the Americans have a veto, to vote for such a state.

South Korea also said it was preparing to report Pyongyang to the United Nations Security Council, potentially for a new round of sanctions.

The announcement comes a day after the U. N. Security Council imposed new sanctions on Iran who refusing to stop enriching uranium.

At the moment, none of them is in the G8 club, and only China has a spot on the UN Security Council.

Medvedev said today that Russia's security council was drawing up a new national security strategy for the period up to 2020.

Within the Security Council, reaction was mixed toward the secretary-general's briefing and the Burmese government's response to his visit.

The United Nations nuclear watchdog has decided to refer Syria to the Security Council over its alleged covert nuclear programme.

Fried, a former U. S. Ambassador to Poland, worked at the White House National Security Council during the Clinton administration.

The ICC can start an examination on its own, after a request from a member country or after an order from the U. N. Security Council.

Mr Hague said the move was in accordance with the UN Security Council resolution on Libya.

He gave a flat assurance that they would introduce no resolution in the Security Council.

Formally speaking, all Libyans are under a legal obligation -- imposed by the U. N. Security Council -- to cooperate with the ICC.

This would not mean giving the UN Security Council a veto over its actions, or rounding up Britain and Togo and doing as it pleased.

As a permanent member of the UN Security Council, China will, as always, carry out the resolutions in a serious and responsible manner.

In March, after the two sides duly failed to agree, Mr Ahtisaari sent the Security Council his own plan for "supervised independence" .

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The U. N. Security Council recently adopted a resolution calling for tougher anti-piracy measures off the Somali coast.

eg. Once a truce is in place, the Security Council can deploy a peacekeeping operation to help the parties carry out their agreements.

The U. N. Security Council has renewed the mandate of its joint U. N. -African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, Sudan, for another year.

Mr. Ahmadinejad has said he wants to explain Iran's nuclear program to the Security Council.

On Thursday, the resolution passed, with the U. S. and nine other Security Council members voting for it, five abstaining.

The Security Council shall submit annual and, when necessary , special reports to the General Assembly for its consideration.

Russia, a permanent member of the U. N. Security Council, has not ruled out supporting new sanctions against Iran.

The Security Council should also demand that the Sudanese government support the fund with a portion of its oil revenues.

In India, he became the first American president to openly support a permanent seat for that country on the United Nations Security Council.

Beijing, which has veto power in the U. N. Security Council, has resisted tough Security Council action against Sudan over the conflict.

The UN security council was meeting last night to hear a report from Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general.

They are willing to address it if it does happen with us in a variety of ways, including the Security Council.

North Korea defied the U. N. Security Council today by firing off a barrage of ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan.

Two days later, the United Nations Security Council approved a resolution urging UN members to help South Korea resist the invasion.

For China's part, Beijing has not ended its opposition to Japan's bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.

The U. N. Security Council met to consider possible sanctions against Gadhafi's regime, including trade sanctions and an arms embargo.

Beijing must stop blocking Security Council action and use all its influence to press the junta to open up the country to relief efforts.

State Department officials say they do not oppose engagement with Iran by current Security Council member countries Turkey and Brazil.

This week the United Nations Security Council is set to renew the mandate of its peacekeeping mission in Haiti for an eighth year.

All of this would be implemented only if requested by the Libyan transitional authorities and approved by the Security Council.

It came after the U. N. Security Council passed a resolution toughening sanctions on Iran over its refusal to stop enriching uranium.

The UN Security Council may yet have to be persuaded to restore peace by invoking the ample power of Chapter VII.

The Security Council Is All Talk and No Action.

Years of pushing for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council have got it nowhere.

Don't be so sure. It has become a constant refrain at U. N. headquarters that the Security Council is anachronistic.

Ban, 62, is set to be designated as the next UN secretary general when the Security Council meets Monday to formalize its choice.

Abroad, it led him to assert Brazil's right to join the best talking shops, such as the United Nations Security Council.

International Atomic Energy Agency has submitted this problem to the United Nations Security Council after it failed to solve this problem.

The Security Council has repeated this demand numerous times and warned that Iraq faces serious consequences if it fails to comply.

To be sure, the Vice President sits in on National Security Council meetings, where the gravest decisions of national policy are considered.

Russia is one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, and remains a major military, energy and diplomatic power.

China's defence expenditure is still the lowest among the five permament members of the [UN] security council.

Discussions about Iran's nuclear activities have intensified among the five permanent United Nations Security Council members and Germany.

China, as one of the five permanent members of the Security Council, assumes special responsibilities to international peace and security.

So the Obama administration will eventually have to decide whether that's an issue worth taking to the U. N. Security Council.

Such a menu could create problems for three of the five permanent security council members.

The United Nations Security Council recommended the world's newest nation to the General Assembly on Wednesday.

The United States has taken over the rotating presidency of the 15-member United Nations Security Council for the month of September. U.

The first objective is to accomplish the mandate set forth in U. N. Security Council Resolution 1973, he said.

China is opposed to any new sanctions and may maintain that stance whatever Russia decides at the security council.

We always advocate for maintaining unity of the Security Council and do not support taking hasty actions.

By the time the National Security Council gathered again March 29, the president had grown wary of the bombing-raid option.

Afghanistan's U. N. representative, Zahir Tanin, told the Security Council that his country is at a "critical juncture. "

It is true that China is now the odd man out on Iran in the Security Council.

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China has blocked publication of a report on North Korea's proliferation activities for the UN Security Council.

The international community condemned the test, and the U. N. Security Council stepped up economic sanctions against the North.

The five permanent members of the U. N. Security Council and Germany are meeting in Berlin to discuss further sanctions against Tehran .

But North Korea's deputy ambassador said this was something that should be discussed by the two Koreas and not by the Security Council.

The move came only hours before a UN Security Council resolution to impose a no-fly zone over the country was to come into effect.

The U. N. Security Council has begun debate over a draft resolution that invokes a section of the U.

They were also used as a pretext to enforce the economic sanctions regime directed against Iran, adopted by the UN Security Council.

Plans for the application of armed force shall be made by the Security Council with the assistance of the Military Staff Committee.

Mr. Brown reiterated Britain's support for India's bid for a permanent seat on the U. N. Security Council.

Bruce Riedel, a former senior staffer on the White House National Security Council, on the Sept. 17 attack on the U.

The Security Council must address the situation, he said, or face renewed fighting in the region.

It would be best if the United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions, but that takes too long.

That would be to ignore the inconvenient fact that Germany abstained in the UN Security Council vote to impose the no-fly zone.

Both parties should agree that this solution would satisfy UN Security Council Resolution 194.

The decision is in line with the resolution passed unanimously on Saturday by the United Nations Security Council.

NATO officials agreed to contribute troops and equipment to such an operation if the UN Security Council asked for it.

An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council failed to agree on steps to ease tension on the peninsula.

Its decision to declare 2005 "the year of Africa" was linked to its ambitions for a seat on the UN Security Council.

The Gulf War, too, had the sanction of the U. N. and its Security Council.

The resolution appears to have the backing of the Security Council's five veto-wielding permanent members, including China and Russia.

Obama coupled the Security Council endorsement with an admonition for India that "with increased power comes increased responsibility. "

The U. N. Security Council agreed Monday to Georgia's request to hold a special meeting on the recent developments.

Do you think Japan should become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council ?

Charter amendments so far have related to the expansion of two main organs, the security Council and the Economic and Social Council.

In 2008 the UN Security Council officially acknowledged that rape has been used as a tool of war.

National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor did not comment on specifics in the article.

United Nations member states met informally on Thursday to begin talks on key issues of reforming the body's powerful Security Council.

After a request from Russia, the United Nations Security Council met Sunday but failed to agree on a statement to defuse tensions.

A new resolution about sanctions on Iran will soon be up for discussion at the United Nations Security Council.

It defied a series of Security Council resolutions calling for a halt, and rebuffed diplomatic overtures from Europe and the United States.

Pyongyang argues the security council criticism is unfair because it had carried out the peaceful launch of a satellite.

The General Assembly, Security Council and ECOSOC should all make good use of their respective advantages to support the work of PBC.

The United States and European countries had pressed the Security Council for a resolution.

Representatives from the five permanent members of the U. N. Security Council plus Germany and the European Union met for about three hours.

With Serbia holding an election in December, Mr Ahtisaari puts off presenting a final version of his plan to the UN Security Council.

If the session produces support for Kenya, the continental body could then submit a formal request to the U. N. Security Council.

Spokesman Wood said a successful outcome would not necessarily involve a formal Security Council resolution.

Its role was to review the options to be presented to the National Security Council.

Unlike Deny Flight, the Iraqi operations were never specifically authorized by the U. N. Security Council.

Targeted sanctions and an arms embargo were expected to be proposed at the UN Security Council.

Q: President Obama said during his visit to India that the US would support India's bid for a permanent seat at the UN Security Council.

The Security Council will keep these sanctions under review and strengthen, modify or lift them in light of the situation.

President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad is reported to be keen to address the Security Council over the nuclear issue.

The recently adopted Security Council Resolution 1515 has given a strong impetus to the implementation of the Roadmap.

The United States is open to U. N. Security Council reform and expansion, as one element of an overall agenda for U. N. reform.

China, a Security Council permanent member, rejected the last two conditions, say diplomats familiar with the negotiations.

"This will be a very particular Security Council with lots of big countries, " said a diplomat from one of the permanent powers.

As we work with China to combat terror, some of our cooperation will be diplomatic, requiring the United Nations Security Council approval.

The U. N. Security Council is expected to approve a statement today urging North Korea to cancel any planned nuclear weapons test.

It was good that certain big countries in the Security Council -- Russia, China, Brazil, and India -- abstained on this resolution.

And when he spoke before the U. N. Security Council in Turtle Bay on Sept. 21, his negotiating lawyer's soul was on full display.

As one of the permanent members of the UN Security Council, how does China react to it?

Secretary Clinton said a statement Wednesday by the United Nations Security Council was a first step.

The UK National Security Council appears to distance itself from economic matters, regardless of the security risks in a sluggish recovery.

Shrewdly, he has mostly let the facts themselves call for censure of the Kim regime by the United Nations Security Council.

The U. N. Security Council met in an emergency session February 22 to discuss the violent crackdown on protesters in Libya.

On the Security Council's regular programs work this month will be a debate on the U. N. 's peacekeeping mission in Haiti.

Key to the deal was temporarily reducing the uranium stocks Iran has acquired in defiance of a string of UN Security Council resolutions.

The United Nations Security Council will resume its conference for the subject of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

With this recommendation by the Security Council, I will humbly put myself for consideration by the General Assembly.

On Wednesday, the U. N. Security Council urged Iraq's recently-elected legislature to form a government quickly.

The predictable outcome was condemnation by the United Nations Security Council, plus sanctions on arms exports that are biting.

But before this year, no mission had been authorised by the UN Security Council that so explicitly cited the new principle.

As Baker himself recently noted, predicating action against Hussein solely on existing Security Council resolutions will not be enough.

The launch was met by condemnation at the UN Security Council as the US and other nations claimed it was a missile test.

America has yet to get behind these proposals, but a sharpened Security Council could mitigate the emerging world's objections to UN reform.

The United States will urge the United Nations Security Council to pass a resolution that threatens possible restrictions against Iran.

At today's meeting, EU diplomats are expected to give formal backing for sanctions against Iran by the United Nations Security Council.

We also strongly condemn the attempt by the US delegation to the UN to block the Security Council from taking action to stop the invasion.

The Security Council is expected to vote next month to extend the peacekeeping mandate for another year, alongside a plan for a speedy exit.

A three-hour meeting between the five permanent members of the security council and Germany in New York on Saturday was inconclusive.

As non-permanent members of the Security Council, aspiring medium-sized powers Turkey and Brazil have no veto.

As soon as they concluded the investigation, they were to report to the Security Council.

Unlike Security Council measures, General Assembly resolutions cannot be vetoed.

But don't expect China, a permanent member of the U. N. Security Council, to add its voice to the call for change.

Endless say the timing of the document leaking ahead of a key UN Security Council meeting, maybe significance.

The United States today (Thursday) will formally ask the United Nations Security Council to punish North Korea for its claimed nuclear test.

We support the African Union's effort to maintain its own solidarity and common interest on the question the Security Council reform.

The Security Council should not serve as a rubber stamp, nor a piece of furniture in Grand Palace.

All are permanent Security Council members with a right to veto any resolution.

Venezuela even voted for Colombia to take up a rotating seat at the United Nations Security Council next month.

We favor Security Council reform that enhances the U. N. 's overall performance, credibility, and legitimacy.

The U. N. Security Council, meanwhile, failed Sunday to agree on a statement to address rising tensions.

It is the world's biggest producer of oil and gas. It has a seat on the UN Security Council and of course that nuclear arsenal.

The U. S. , Britain and the United Nations Security Council all slapped sanctions on Libya this weekend.

When the UN Security Council voted for military intervention in Libya, Germany abstained, breaking with its NATO allies.

Todd, whose White House career began during the Clinton Administration when she served on the National Security Council.

China, North Korea's biggest benefactor and closest ally, holds one of Security Council's five permanent seats and can veto any action.