Suchergebnisse

The UN High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges, & Change issued their report for reform of the collective security system & the UN in December 2004. Impatiently awaited, primarily in anticipation of recommendations for reform of the Security Council, the broad goal of the report was to establish a new vision of collective security for the 21st century, though it simultaneously offers practical recommendations as to how the UN can more effectively & efficiently approach current & future threats ranging from poverty & civil war to terrorism, criminality, & WMD. Initial reactions are hopeful, though the ultimate success of the reforms depends on the degree to which the G-77 are prepared to accept robust measures with certain limits to their sovereignty in the fight against hard threats, if & in what measure the donor nations are prepared to & in the position to offer more resources for the fight against poverty & infections in developing nations, & what attitude the US & President Bush will take toward the UN during his second term. 1 Table, 1 Photograph. L. Reed