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...Boutros-Ghali as an architect of Clinton's foreign policy. The Administration does not yet have an alternative, but may try to dissuade Boutros-Ghali by threatening to exercise the U.S. veto. Who else might be in the running? A safe option would be a veteran diplomat, such as Kofi Annan of Ghana, head of U.N. peacekeeping operations, or Sadako Ogata of Japan, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Another choice: South Africa's Richard Goldstone, who is stepping down as prosecutor of the U.N. war-crimes tribunal. But the U.N. may for the first time risk selecting someone with...
...York last week, Kofi Annan, the U.N. Under Secretary for Peacekeeping, bridled at the charges of U.N. do-nothingness. "I believe the United Nations has been made a scapegoat," he charged, by "member states who do not want to take the risks." An official at NATO headquarters summed up U.S. frustrations: "It's because the Europeans say one thing in New York and something different here...
...authorized deployment of 5,500 troops two months ago to keep the peace in Rwanda, so why are only 550 there? Because the governments that promised to supply those troops haven't equipped them to go, the U.N.'s top peacekeeping official complained today. Undersecretary-General Kofi Annan said the troops should "be deployed at full strength rapidly" to help steer the Rwandan refugees back home. For now, the mostly Canadian U.N. force is mostly on its own until 4,000 or more U.S. troops arrive within days. BTW: Americans have contributed at least $39 million in aid to Rwandan...
Strapped for cash, short of manpower, criticized for its performance, the U.N. has reached the end of its capacity for settling global disputes. "We are at a critical stage," says Kofi Annan, Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, "because we have been asked to do too much with too little." In 1988, when U.N. peacekeepers won the Nobel Peace Prize, their numbers totaled just over 10,000. This year almost 80,000 blue helmets are deployed around a post-cold war world in which peace has only been achieved piecemeal. Troops still patrol truce lines, but now they also monitor...
...sniping was almost as fierce in the corridors of the United Nations as in the streets of Mogadishu. Without bothering to notify Rome, Kofi Annan, the U.N.'s chief of peacekeeping operations, ordered General Bruno Loi, Italy's military commander in Somalia, to be "rotated back home" for insubordination. Annan denounced Loi for meeting with armed clansmen of Mohammed Farrah Aidid and refusing to carry out orders in the increasingly violent campaign to capture or kill the warlord. "Only the Italian government has the competence to decide who should lead our soldiers," responded Foreign Minister Beniamino Andreatta. The Italians, retorted...