“The dream is that others will come and see what we are doing and understand that there is a systemic solution to the orphan problem that plagues much of the developing world,” Heyman said.

Heyman got the idea for the village at a 2005 dinner when she and her husband were seated at a table with Paul Rusesabagina, the Rwandan hotel manager made famous in the movie “Hotel Rwanda” for trying to protect Tutsis and moderate Hutus targeted in the 1994 slaughter of at least 500,000 people.

Her husband asked Rusesabagina what Rwanda’s biggest problem was.

Orphans, he replied.

Heyman, a former New York assistant district attorney and mother of three, thought of the thousands of Jewish children orphaned by the Holocaust who were resettled in youth villages in Israel. She believed that model could work in Rwanda, where there are more than 610,000 orphans, including 95,000 orphaned by the genocide, according to the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF.

So after that dinner conversation, Heyman started raising money and making contacts in Rwanda and Israel. She founded Agahozo Shalom, which combines the Kinyarwanda word agahoza meaning “tears are dried” with the Hebrew word shalom which means “peace.”

She collected donations from Liquidnet Holdings, the electronic stock-trading firm founded by her husband Seth Merrin, and other foundations, companies and individuals. With $12 million and help from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the first 125 high school students arrived at the 144-acre (58-hectare) village in January 2009.

The village, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the capital Kigali, is now home to 500 young people who live in “families” — 16 to a house, with a house mother or father, and big sister or brother. They get health care and plenty of emotional support, Heyman said.

Heyman’s goal is to integrate the orphans into a community, giving them families and individual attention as well as a full school curriculum including music, art and sports. They are expected to use the education and skills they are learning to help other struggling Rwandans, whether by building houses, growing crops or teaching.

“The philosophy of how we do things is really the same for every orphan in the world,” Heyman said, “and so whether the kids are orphaned by AIDS, conflict, genocide, they’ve been abandoned by the world, the solution is really the same.”

Gasana, the Rwandan ambassador, suggested that Heyman partner with UNICEF, the U.N. children’s agency.

“It’s a good model I think to sell everywhere in the world,” he said.

In New York, the young Rwandans performed music at a fundraiser that brought in about $500,000 on Monday, Heyman said.

To select new members of the village, Heyman said Agahozo Shalom sends letters to Rwanda’s mayors asking them to identify 10 orphans who meet specific criteria, all based on vulnerability, including a lack food or shelter or someone to take care of them and emotional problems. There is no medical or academic testing, she said.

Sitting around a table in the ambassador’s conference room, the five young people talked about their difficult lives before going to Agahozo Shalom village.

Peace Grace Muhizi Umutesi, 18, lost both her parents to the genocide when she was a month old. She then lived with her aunt, who has five children, for 10 years. The family was so poor that sometimes they missed meals. Nobody had ever asked her what she wanted for her future until she was interviewed by Agahozo Shalom.

“I didn’t have any dream in me. I was just studying for studying, not studying for being someone in the future,” she said.

Now she is singing, and studying math, economics and computers. She dreams of being a famous singer and a software engineer.

“They told us ‘if you see far you will go far’. … That’s made me strong,” she said.

She said Agahozo Shalom “is like my family” and added: “I feel very powerful and I know that if something is good it is wonderful and if it goes wrong it is an experience.”

Pascasie Nyirantwari, 21, who lost her father in the genocide and her mother to illness seven years later, said she had no hope for the future when she came to the village from an orphanage. She will be part of the village’s first high school graduating class in November and wants to continue singing and acting and study interior design.

“Now I have a hope for tomorrow,” she said.

Innocent Nkundiye, 19, also lost his father in the genocide and his mother struggled to raise him and his brother. He went to school but didn’t do well. Now, he’s studying math and science and wants to be a doctor. He said that when the local physician in his district died, the women cried because they didn’t know who would take care of them when they got pregnant.

“So because of that, I got a dream,” Innocent said. “Maybe I can change something, and I can solve these problems … and I said I have first of all to do something that can make me a doctor. So I chose math, biology and chemistry to study — and I will be a doctor.”

The report to the council committee monitoring sanctions is expected to be discussed by the 15 council members and could be changed before it is finalized. The panel’s previous report in May 2011 has not been released because of objections from China, which has close ties to North Korea. The reports use the country’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or DPRK.

The panel’s latest assessment said member states did not report any violations involving the transfer of items related to nuclear, chemical or biological weapons or ballistic missiles, “but they did report several other violations including illicit sales of arms and related material and luxury goods,” the diplomats said.

“These cases provide ample evidence that the DPRK continues actively to defy the measures in the resolution,” the diplomats quoted the report as saying.

The panel said it couldn’t confirm recent media reports and academic papers citing possible ongoing missile cooperation between North Korea and other states, especially Iran and Syria, the diplomats said.

But they quoted the panel as saying this “would be consistent with reports of the DPRK’s long history of missile cooperation with these countries and with the panel’s observations.”

In assessing the impact of sanctions, the panel concluded that “although the resolutions have not caused the DPRK to halt its banned activities, they appear to have slowed them and made illicit transactions significantly more difficult and expensive,” the diplomats said.

The panel cited a number of cases including a report from France in April 2012 about its interception in November 2010 of “an illicit shipment of arms-related material originating from the DPRK and destined for Syria,” the diplomats said.

The shipment contained brass discs and copper rods used to manufacture artillery munitions and aluminum alloy tubes useable for making rockets, the diplomats quoted the report as saying.

The report referred to two North Korean ships heading for Myanmar — one in June 2009 and the other in May 2011 — which the U.S. has said were suspected to be carrying weapons or missiles, one diplomat said. The first turned back, apparently after it became aware it was being tracked, and the second headed home after being challenged by a U.S. Navy destroyer.

The panel also found that activities carried out under a 2008 memorandum of cooperation between the armed forces of North Korea and Myanmar could violate sanctions, the diplomat said.

Ahead of the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan in 2014, Kubis said, the NATO summit should deliver “a clear commitment of individual countries” — not just general political pledges — to contribute as much as possible toward the $4.1 billion annual goal for the Afghan security forces for many years to come.

Unless there is significant financial support for Afghanistan, “we might face a nasty situation once again, so it’s a common strategic interest of all of us,” he said.

Kubis, who will be accompanying U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to Chicago, said support must also come from regional countries that will be meeting in Kabul on June 14 to discuss confidence-building measures in combatting terrorism, the narcotics trade and promoting investment. Pakistan, China and Iran will attend, he said.

“Afghanistan will be firm and stand firm and stable only if there is support from regional countries,” he said.

Kubis said Ban will also assure summit participants that U.N. is prepared to continue its programs to help Afghanistan move towards democracy and to channel support for Afghan security forces, notably the police.

Asked whether whether the transition from international to Afghan-led security forces is taking place too quickly, Kubis said “it’s for Afghanistan to determine.”

“At this time I would say it’s a managed process, even a well-managed process,” he said. “We see and we hear positive results and our expectations are that the process will continue.”

He said “there are always risks and anxieties” when an international force leaves, but “I would say that’s a natural development.”

Despite the anxiety in Afghan society, he said the 2014 pullout will means “they have full responsibility for the future of the country and that is always a healthy process.”

She identified one of them as the Green Pine Associated Corporation. Council diplomats identified the other two as the Amroggang Development Banking Corporation and The Korea Heungjin Trading Company.

Rice said the sanctions committee also approved updates of items and technology to the Missile Technology Control Regime list and the Nuclear Suppliers Group list, and approved a new work plan for the committee’s panel of experts. The lists were last updated in 2009.

The Missile Technology Control Regime, a group of 34 countries, monitors the transfer of missile equipment, material and related technologies that can be used to deliver weapons of mass destruction. The Nuclear Suppliers Group comprises countries which have established export rules to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

“Taken together, we view this as a strong and credible set of new sanctions,” Rice said.

The Security Council unanimously approved a presidential statement on April 16 strongly condemning North Korea’s failed rocket launch on April 13. The council gave the sanctions committee — which includes all 15 council members — 15 days to prepare new additions for the sanctions list.

The European Union proposed about 40 additions and the United States, Japan and South Korea also submitted lists — but China, North Korea’s closest ally, did not respond until just before the deadline Tuesday night, diplomats said, speaking on condition of anonymity because talks have been private.

China approved the three additions, and the sanctions committee agreed to the additions Wednesday, the diplomats said.

The Security Council has imposed two rounds of sanctions against North Korea, after its 2006 and 2009 nuclear tests.

Before Wednesday’s additions, the sanctions blacklist included eight entities — six trading companies, a bank and the General Bureau of Atomic Energy — and five individuals.