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UNreformable? United Nations drops the ball
With the United States getting day by day increasingly bogged down in the Iraqi quagmire and the future role for the United Nations in that country as uncertain as ever, the after-effects of the bombing last August 19 of the organizationâs headquarters in Baghdad, which saw the death of 23 of its staff including special representative Sergio Vieira de Mello, continue to bedevil the world body. At a time when the UN is facing its most serious crisis in its 50-year history, the handling of the aftermath of the attack by a UN Secretariat that appears to be increasingly disconnected with reality and only concerned with self-preservation is turning, in the opinion of many observers in New York, into a saga of literarily all the ills that bedevil the organization.
Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-05-23 |
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