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...just as it was about to take on a much larger peacekeeping challenge in the Democratic Republic of Congo. U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, leading a Security Council delegation, secured reluctant agreement last week from Congo's warring parties to accept peacekeepers. But the spectacle of Secretary-General Kofi Annan scrambling to quell what he called Sankoh's "flagrant violation" of Sierra Leone's peace accord raised doubts about U.N. efforts anywhere in Africa...
...Annan's immediate priority was to free the hostages in Sierra Leone. Although the Blue Helmets are empowered to use lethal force to protect themselves, they are not there to go to war. Annan begged a host of African leaders to intercede with Sankoh and called for the deployment of a rapid-reaction force to bolster the 8,400 U.N. troops already there. None of the countries capable of sending one were willing; Britain and the U.S. ruled out their own forces. The mercurial rebel chief variously denied that his men were holding anyone, suggested the U.N. soldiers "may have...
...West is truly intent on keeping peace in the world, they must support the creation of a rapid reaction force for the United Nations. Secretary General Kofi Annan has repeatedly requested that this type of standing army be created for the United Nations to be effective in maintaining international security. But the West, mostly the United States, has not supported this move...
...scoffing too at the new missile shield. The difference is this system is not only being tested but is also being demanded by a majority of the U.S. Congress, with the assent of the White House. The geopolitical implications may resurrect the cold war. Says U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan: "It could well lead to a new arms race...
...Treaty, and Russia's in no hurry to let it go in the face of Washington's renewed enthusiasm for a "Star Wars" missile defense system. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was forced onto the defensive Monday at a U.N. conference on nonproliferation, with even U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan supporting Moscow's reasoning and warning that U.S. efforts to build a missile defense system could jeopardize the ABM treaty and restart the nuclear arms race. Although Russian president Vladimir Putin got his legislature to ratify the START II agreement slashing U.S. and Russian missile fleets, he made it conditional...