All contracts to buy Iraqi oil will have to be submitted to a United Nations panel for approval.

The United Nations panel that awards accreditations is dominated by governments with questionable human rights records.

The science on this point is shaky, a reason why the United Nations panel has avoided making temperature projections by region.

He also sat on the United Nations panel for examination of international disputes.

Last month a United Nations panel called for the prisons to be shut down.

The United Nations advisory panel making these recommendations was composed of generally conservative experts.

If even the 2001 estimates from the United Nations panel are correct, they say, there will be "major land loss."

And he does not foresee the kind of sea level rise predicted by the United Nations panel.

Meanwhile, three recently formed United Nations panels are trying to find a solution to the impasse.

The United Nations panel is meeting here.