Word: ghali
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Americans were rightly outraged at the sight of Somalian thugs waylaying humanitarian aid. But it should have been obvious from the start that to effectively "restore hope" would require the disarming of the Somalian warlords, as U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali had originally requested...
...balance of terror has degenerated into a motley bunch of renegade regimes, all pounding on the door of the nuclear club. Just as Americans are growing uncomfortable with our new role as de facto globocop, our share of the burden grows larger. Our allies are passing the buck: Boutros-Ghali has reported that France, Italy, Belgium, Jordan, and Tunisia are considering pulling out of Somalia before...
...warned Burundi not to expect any help because the Security Council "has shown no inclination to take on any new operations." In embattled Angola a recent request for an increase in U.N. military observers has gone unanswered. And in Somalia grudging participants are pressing Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to rethink that faltering operation...
Given the frequency with which member states are turning to the U.N. to police world conflicts, Annan hopes they will start thinking seriously about how to do it better. Boutros-Ghali's call for the creation of a standby force has mostly been ignored. If some more effective mechanism is not created, he fears, the U.N. will go out of the peacekeeping business as quickly as it has gone into...
...central problem with the Somalia mission was that the U.S. went in saying they had no intention of disarming the warlords, this despite the pleas of U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros Ghali. When the less competent U.N. forces took over from the initial American force they had to face well-armed warlords such as General Mohammad Farah Aidid...