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Article: United Nations' credibility falls victim to violence.
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- January 22, 1993
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NEW YORK - When a Serbian irregular soldier shot Bosnia-Herzegovina's deputy prime minister inside a U.N. armored vehicle Jan. 8, he may have killed more than an eminent and respected Bosnian politician.
The United Nations' credibility as a neutral broker between contending sides to a conflict and effective agent of post-Cold War peacemaking efforts may also have received possibly mortal wounds.
Recent challenges to the credibility of the United Nations and its Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali have generated an unexpected crisis of confidence that - in a period of growing U.S. domestic preoccupation despite its dominance of the United Nations - ...