The United Nations representative for human rights arrived to assess the situation, his third visit.

It foresees sending in human rights observers, relief aid and a United Nations representative.

There were also off-the-record meetings that brought together United Nations representatives, government officials and an assortment of specialists.

A United Nations representative will call out the exact weight of each bar calculated to several decimal places and record the figure on a computer.

He said that after negotiations over the weekend with a United Nations representative, an impasse had been reached on several issues.

She served as Canada's United Nations representative from 1992 to 1994.

The United Nations representative "should be more sensitive to the realities of Iraq," he said.

Now, while a United Nations representative will attend, he will be a passive observer.

But that is partly because the Chinese have never allowed United Nations representatives to conduct interviews with this population.

The United Nations representatives asked key resistance leaders to hold back their members, which they did, but the crowd was not solely theirs.