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...ACCORD TO ENFORCE THE 1972 BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION July 2001 Abandoning seven years of negotiations, the U.S. rejected the agreement last week, saying that "the draft protocol would put national security and confidential business information at risk...
KYOTO PROTOCOL March 2001 The Bush Administration abandoned the 1997 climate-control treaty to cut emissions of so-called greenhouse gases linked to global warming, claiming that developing nations got off too easy. Last week 178 countries reached a climate accord anyway...
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT TREATY January 2001 President-elect Bush refused to ask the Senate to ratify the "flawed" accord establishing the world's first permanent war-crimes tribunal. With the support of 138 other nations, the ICC, based in the Netherlands, may begin operations next year...
...Peacekeeping troops are still deployed throughout the Balkans, for the most part under the sturdier command of NATO rather than the paralytic U.N. bureaucracy. Even then, their record of standing up to racist thuggery is somewhat mixed. NATO showed great resolve in forcing the Serbs to accept the Dayton accord on Bosnia and later in getting them out of Kosovo, but the alliance has proved rather wimpish when its peacekeeping troops are confronted by continued ethnic cleansing (as in Kosovo) or new separatist insurgencies (as in the Presevo Valley and Macedonia). The current events in Macedonia are a reminder that...
...homes. And while that may have averted the immediate threat of an inevitably bloody offensive by the Macedonian security forces to drive out the insurgents, the latest cease-fire may be little more than a holding pattern until the next outbreak of fighting. The larger objective of a political accord to facilitate peaceful coexistence between the Macedonian majority and the country's ethnic-Albanian minority appears more remote than ever...