[Bon mots]

Can anyone name a single success of Kofi Annan's?

Let's see... Rwanda... oh, never mind... wait...
Srebrenica... uh....
okay, Iraq... no
North Korea...
the current half dozen or so wars in his home region in Africa...well, uh...
Oil for food...uh...

...and that buffoon had the nerve to criticize Bush and the US.

[Howlin]

Oh, wait...somebody posted ALL the UN"s "successes" today.....I'll get them.

BRB.

[mewzilla]

And Sudan....Don't forget Sudan, right Mr. Stingy?

[Howlin]

To: RJL

There are many more UN successes than I can mention here, especially as most of them are on the quiet side. In the nature of the case, a body like the UN will get blamed for the visible misfortunes it 'fails' to prevent, but rarely get credited for the fruits of its ongoing efforts. Here are a few good results that come to mind, though:

Raising awareness of human rights and making the World Declaration of 1948 one of the leading documents of our time;

Contributions to establishing the Law of the Sea and other aspects of the Law of Peoples;

The successful contributions of several agencies including The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR);

Preventing civil wars during decolonization, for instance in the Congo, 1960-61;

Ending the Iran-Iraq war in 1988;

Helping to end apartheid in South Africa;

Keeping the peace on Cyprus; in Lebanon; Liberia; Angola; Ethiopia/Erithrea; the Central African Republic; Bosnia and Kosovo after the wars; in and many other locations;

Wiping out smallpox;

Monitoring and promoting free elections in countries like El Salvador, East Timor, Eritrea, Guatemala, and many other;

Preventing massive famine on the Horn of Africa in 2001;

Getting Iran to agree to spot checks of nuclear facilities. Like I said, those are just a few that come to mind.

79 posted on 12/29/2004 1:46:23 PM EST by Tamberlane

****Warning: this posters joined on October 12, 2004, to post on this thread:

Norwegians Place Anti-Bush Ad in Washington Post

and reappeared once agenda today to post on this thread:

"Stingy" This, Mr. Egeland

Odd, isn't it, that a poster would join up to defend Norway, and then only reappear to defend the NORWEGIAN Yawn Egghead.

[Tamberlane]

There are many more UN successes than I can mention here, especially as most of them are on the quiet side. In the nature of the case, a body like the UN will get blamed for the visible misfortunes it 'fails' to prevent, but rarely get credited for the fruits of its ongoing efforts. Here are a few good results that come to mind, though:

Raising awareness of human rights and making the World Declaration of 1948 one of the leading documents of our time;

Contributions to establishing the Law of the Sea and other aspects of the Law of Peoples;

The successful contributions of several agencies including The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR);

Preventing civil wars during decolonization, for instance in the Congo, 1960-61;

Ending the Iran-Iraq war in 1988;

Helping to end apartheid in South Africa;

Keeping the peace on Cyprus; in Lebanon; Liberia; Angola; Ethiopia/Erithrea; the Central African Republic; Bosnia and Kosovo after the wars; in and many other locations;

Wiping out smallpox;

Monitoring and promoting free elections in countries like El Salvador, East Timor, Eritrea, Guatemala, and many other;

Preventing massive famine on the Horn of Africa in 2001;

Getting Iran to agree to spot checks of nuclear facilities. Like I said, those are just a few that come to mind.