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...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...
Such sentiments will hardly make for smooth U.S.-U.N. cooperation in future peacekeeping operations. Boutros-Ghali, in an interview with Time, chose to turn the other cheek. Said he: "I am a super beggar" who can operate only with the contributions of troops and money that member nations make and the conditions they set. But members of his staff were understandably furious at the U.S. attitude...
...such a settlement were to rely on anything more than token U.N. military support, however, it might be doomed. Boutros-Ghali notes that U.N. members have stubbornly not put up the money that could finance Somalian peace -- funds needed to organize police forces or a judicial system, for example. So American troops might have to pull out with no settlement in place, and if Somalia remains dangerous, it seems unlikely that other troops will stay after the Yanks go. Boutros-Ghali remarks that France, Italy, Belgium, Jordan and Tunisia are already talking about pulling out even before the U.S. does...