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...added that UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has been essential in helping integrate human rights fully into the UN, allowing it to better ensure that countries respect the rights of individuals...
...Senate Democrats—who have been as of yet lukewarm in their criticism of Bush’s foreign policy initiatives—of being irresponsible, uninterested and unpatriotic. Such an unfair characterization effectively cuts off debate by branding all those who legitimately question White House policy as un-American...
...latest agreement to unfettered arms inspections may be just what Secretary of State Colin Powell had been trying to avoid. Not that Powell is in any rush to go to war, but the deal hammered out Tuesday in Vienna after two days of talks between Iraqi officials and UN arms inspectors is based on existing UN resolutions, rather than the tough new ultimatum for which Washington has been pushing at the Security Council. And that could make the difference, for London and Washington, between effective and ineffective inspections. Most irksome to the U.S. in the current deal is the fact...
Ritter said Berger got Richard Butler, the UN official in charge of overseeing the inspections, to order inspectors to inspect a non-military site in Baghdad, forcing Iraq into a position of non-compliance with the UN that forced the withdrawal of inspectors in 1998, setting the stage for a U.S. bombing campaign...
...editorial, “Israel’s Inalienable Right” (Editorial, Sept. 25), the Crimson staff is right on one count: Article 51 of the UN Charter affirms the right of Israel—or any state—to retaliate against an armed attack. But just because Israel has that right, it does not follow that it must use it, especially when doing so would do itself more harm than good...