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Article: A bit of respect, please: the voice of the United Nations carries less moral authority than it should.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- August 8, 1998
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KEEPING the peace is essentially what the UN was set up to do. Since then, it has accrued countless other activities, though, as we argue on pages 17-19, this multifariousness does not spell efficiency: other bodies can do much of the UN's economic work and do it better. But for the job of international peackeeper there is often no alternative-and it is something a turbulent world still all too evidently needs. However, since the world cannot make up its mind how the UN should go about the job, it too is often done inadequately.
The setbacks and frustrations make uncomfortable reading. Many of the more impenetrable problems-Cyprus, India and Pakistan, Western ...