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Article: United Nations needs streamlining.(Column)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- September 10, 2004
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As a member of the Council to the United Nations Association, I spent two days recently consulting at the United Nations in New York. The secretary general, Kofi Annan, spoke at dinner reminding the 60-member group of the complexities of the 191 nations (192 if one includes the Holy See) that make up the United Nations.
The association has existed for some 40 years, urging, exhorting and inspiring the United Nations to streamline its outdated and ineffective structures. The obsolete mechanisms of the United Nations are self-evident. There is no reason why the victors in a war that ended in 1945 should be the five supreme rulers of an organization that embraces ...