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Article: Returning to the United Nations: Then and Now.(Brief Article)
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- UN Chronicle
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- September 22, 1999
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After a lapse of nearly 15 years, I have returned to New York once again to represent my country at the United Nations. During the interim, I served my Government in other diplomatic assignments and as Minister for Trade, Industry, Power and Tourism in the Bhutanese Cabinet for about a decade.
A sea change had occurred. With the glaring disappearance of the other superpower-the Soviet Union-the politics of cold war in its previous manifestation no longer prevailed. Though I welcomed the end of this phenomenon, I somehow missed the earlier situation with its peculiar absurdity and bipolar rationale. At that time, the functioning of most States, and especially of ...