Word: annan
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...little early for sighs of relief over the fate of East Timor. Indonesian foreign minister Ali Alatas met with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan in New York Monday to negotiate the terms of a peacekeeping mission to East Timor. But although President B. J. Habibie caved in under mounting international pressure Sunday and accepted the principle of a peacekeeping mission, perils aplenty await both the Timorese and their prospective liberators. For one thing, nobody knows quite who is in charge in Jakarta these days. That the president's announcement was immediately endorsed by the all-powerful military is certainly encouraging...
...even the peacekeepers will have to behave. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday signed on to the Geneva Convention, extending the rules of war to cover U.N. peacekeeping forces. Although that may sound a little superfluous, the present situation is that such forces are only governed by the codes applied by each nation contributing troops -? which has resulted in widely divergent responses when soldiers from different countries have engaged in abuses during peacekeeping operations. While Belgian and Canadian troops were severely punished for torturing captives in Somalia, Pakistani personnel weren?t even charged for similar abuses during the same...
...Kofi Annan is trying to enforce a universal standard of behavior among forces serving under the U.N. flag," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "The problem is that it only really works if enforcement is universal too, and Annan?s proposal still leaves it up to the home country of the troops to actually prosecute and punish violators. In practice, that dilutes the the code, because we?ve already seen that different countries don?t apply the same penalties or strictness in applying codes of conduct." Consistent standards could be upheld, of course, by the proposed International Criminal Court...
...most strident, Mahbubani writes with a diplomat's charm, gleefully untangling political knots into simple threads. The book has a special force because it comes from a man who is a prototype 21st century leader--he has his own URL--and a leading candidate to one day succeed Kofi Annan as U.N. Secretary-General. That pedigree is surely responsible for some of his buzz, but the ambassador's book is anything but a faddish flash...
...racialism, I mean a recognition of differences in race that are not necessarily mean-spirited. I laugh when my host mother tells me as we watch the news that she always remembers Kofi Annan's name because he is black like "coffee." But then a bright young Russian student asks me, "Why are there so many niggers on MTV?" And then I talk to a man from Africa who tells me that if he doesn't make it back to his apartment before dark, he waits until the morning so that the kids who sit outside his apartment will...