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...Kofi Annan dominated the headlines this week, showing once again in his uniquely unassuming way why he may well be the world's best-loved and most widely respected political figure. First, the dulcet-voiced U.N. Secretary General ever-so-gently persuaded the governments of the world to commit to a global strategy to fight an AIDS pandemic that has killed 20 million people and has already selected its next 30 million victims...
...those governments responded at the first-ever U.N. General Assembly session devoted to a public health crisis, adopting the most wide-ranging global battle plan against the disease ever and beginning to breathe life into Annan's proposed global war chest to fight AIDS and other killers of the world's poorest and most vulnerable...
...comprehensive strategy against it in the space of three days), and the Assembly session raised serious cultural and political differences. Some Muslim countries, for example, strenuously objected to any references to gays or prostitutes in the conference's declarations, and AIDS activists expressed concern that the focus of Annan's fund would be on prevention of the spread of the disease and neglect the issue of treatment for those already afflicted with HIV. Such discord did little to dampen Annan's optimism over the progress made at the event: "In the last two days some painful differences have been brought...
...Still, they believe the situation has changed somewhat since the disco bombing, and there have been a lot more actors involved in building this cease-fire - the Russians, the Europeans, Kofi Annan. The Bush administration has taken a more multilateral approach - their more humble goals make them less leery of involving others than the Clinton administration was. And if Powell can come back with a timetable for implementing the Mitchell recommendations, that would be a big step forward...
...choice by the world's wealthier nations to let some 30 million poor people die of a treatable disease rather than spend the money on keeping them alive. And that, presumably, is a choice with which the global citizenry won't feel entirely comfortable. At least not if Kofi Annan has anything to do with...