Word: ghaly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Although the Clinton Administration denies it, there is a perception that the U.S. has chosen to abandon Somalia rather than contend with the dangers. Turkish General Cevik Bir, leaving the command of the U.N. operation there last week, leaked an "eyes only" letter to U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, indirectly chastising the Americans and Europeans for "mission erosion." Said Bir: "The contributing nations must be committed enough to accept the violence and loss of life associated with war, and then stay the course...
Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali told the U.N. Security Council that without a substantial new ground presence there would be little point to using air strikes against Bosnian Serbs, as threatened by NATO leaders at their summit meeting in Brussels earlier this month. U.N. officials advised Boutros- Ghali that air strikes would endanger U.N. peacekeepers and humanitarian- aid workers...
With that in mind, the United States should not be so loathe to stop genocide in other parts of the world. The crisis in Bosnia will not be halted by the closely constrained peace-keepers of the United Nations, despite the dogged diplomatic efforts of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali...
...Ghali, asserting the preferability of negotiated solutions, continues to argue against air strikes. But for three years, negotiated solutions have failed to take hold. Bosnians, Serbs and Croats will not reconcile their centuries-old differences unless controlled by force. Let force again take from these people the freedom to fight for the good of the civilians, if any remain alive. And if the same becomes necessary in Somalia...
...American military power as a last resort, but air strikes, for example, could trigger another full-scale Korean war, and if the North has a bomb, it is probably hidden. That leaves direct, bilateral diplomacy, the course Washington intends to keep pursuing. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali tried to help the process along by visiting Pyongyang and Beijing over the past two weeks but found North Korean President Kim Il Sung and Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen unreceptive to a role...