Word: annan
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Strapped for cash, short of manpower, criticized for its performance, the U.N. has reached the end of its capacity for settling global disputes. "We are at a critical stage," says Kofi Annan, Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, "because we have been asked to do too much with too little." In 1988, when U.N. peacekeepers won the Nobel Peace Prize, their numbers totaled just over 10,000. This year almost 80,000 blue helmets are deployed around a post-cold war world in which peace has only been achieved piecemeal. Troops still patrol truce lines, but now they also monitor...
...peacekeeping budget is more than $1 billion in arrears. Congress has just cut the U.S. share of new bills from nearly one-third to one-fourth. The shortage of funds results from a lack of political will. "Somalia was reality therapy for the international community," says the U.N.'s Annan. "Intellectually we were ready for it. Emotionally we were...
...sniping was almost as fierce in the corridors of the United Nations as in the streets of Mogadishu. Without bothering to notify Rome, Kofi Annan, the U.N.'s chief of peacekeeping operations, ordered General Bruno Loi, Italy's military commander in Somalia, to be "rotated back home" for insubordination. Annan denounced Loi for meeting with armed clansmen of Mohammed Farrah Aidid and refusing to carry out orders in the increasingly violent campaign to capture or kill the warlord. "Only the Italian government has the competence to decide who should lead our soldiers," responded Foreign Minister Beniamino Andreatta. The Italians, retorted...
...actually only very excited, overstimulated men on very short sleep, together with all the toys of supersecrecy and the helicopters and the special passes, that inevitably produce irrational behavior. But those people, when they began, were ordinary guys; they were like us. Noel Annan, who was in British intelligence for years, said nobody should be allowed to do it more than three years, that one way of keeping an intelligence service sane is to have it run entirely by temporary people...