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Kofi Annan (right), Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League for Syria, and Major-General Robert Mood, head of the U.N. Supervision Mission in Syria and Chief Military Observer, look on during a news briefing June 22, 2012, at the United Nations in Geneva. (Associated Press)
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Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad poses June 20, 2012, for a photo at the United Nations conference on sustainable development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro. (Associated Press)
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Illustration U.N. Treaty by John Camejo for The Washington Times
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UN observers welcome their comrades upon their return from al-Haffa, in northern Syria, to Damascus, Syria on Saturday, June 16, 2012. U.N. Observers in Syria suspended their activities and patrols Saturday because of escalating violence in the country, the head of the mission said, the strongest sign yet that an international peace plan for Syria is disintegrating. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)
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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi waves as she arrives at the 101st conference of the International Labor Organization at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva on Thursday, June 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)
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This image made from video released by the United Nations Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) and accessed on Saturday, June 9, 2012, purports to show a U.N. observer near a destroyed bus after overnight fighting in Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo/UNSMIS via AP Video)
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United Nations-Arab League special envoy to Syria Kofi Anan addresses the United Nations General Assembly on the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, Thursday, June 7, 2012, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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** FILE ** In this image made from amateur video released by Ugarit News and accessed Saturday, May 5, 2012, a U.N. observer, right, inspects what residents of the town of Taftanaz, Syria, tell him is a mass grave. The Associated Press cannot independently verify the content, date, location or authenticity of this material. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)
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** FILE ** This March 9, 2012, file photo shows Oprah Winfrey at the Third Annual DVF Awards held at the United Nations. Winfrey's OWN cable channel and her magazine are bringing back her book club, starting with the memoir "Wild" by Cheryl Strayed. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file)
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Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syria, speaks June 1, 2012, during a press conference after his meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati at the governmental palace in Beirut. (Associated Press)
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In this citizen journalism image taken on May 29, 2012, and provided by Edlib News Network ENN, a Syrian girl sits atop of a U.N. observers vehicle during a demonstration in Kfarnebel, Idlib province in northern Syria. (Associated Press/Edlib News Network ENN)
