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President Obama shakes hands with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon before addressing the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters on Sept. 25, 2012. (Associated Press)

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters on Sept. 25, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Lakhdar Brahimi (center), the U.N.-Arab League joint special representative for Syria, arrives for closed-door consultations on Syria at the United Nations on Monday, Sept. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/David Karp)

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Syrian refugees chant slogans to protest against the visit of Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, not pictured, to the Zaatari Refugees Camp in Jordan for Syrians who fled the civil war in their country in Mafraq, Jordan, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

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Lakhdar Brahimi (left), the U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, speaks in Mafraq, Jordan, on Tuesday as Andrew Harper, the UNHCR representative to Jordan, listens during a visit to the Zaatari refugee camp for Syrians who fled the civil war. (Associated Press)

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Palestinians protest against the movie, "Innocence of Muslims," near the United Nations office in Gaza City, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

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** FILE ** U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) meets with Lakhdar Brahimi, the newly appointed joint special representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria, at United Nations headquarters on Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/David Karp)

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In this photo released by MINUSTAH, the U.N. mission in Haiti, a woman swims through floodwaters in a low-lying area affected by Tropical Storm Isaac in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/MINUSTAH, Logan Abassi)

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Lakhdar Brahimi, a former Algerian foreign affairs minister who was named Friday as the new U.N. envoy for Syria, gives an interview to the Associated Press in Paris on Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)