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Ideas for Reform : Ideas for Reform-United Nations General
- British Move to Restore UN's Credibility
-- Britain is to work to restore the UN's "battered and bruised" credibility in the wake of the Iraq war by calling for expansion of the UN's security council and the setting up of a new UN organisation to combat weapons proliferation.
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- Dalai Lama Calls for Reform of United Nations
-- 1993 - The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, called for the United Nations to make itself more democratic by setting up a chamber of "representatives of humanity."
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- How the OAS Can Export Democracy--to the U.N.
-- Although only a complete overhaul will put the U.N. on a more purposeful footing, defining new membership requirements should number among the considerations.
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- Reforming the United Nations
-- The UN today is precariously funded, stretched thin by an unprecedented number of peacekeeping missions, and generally underequipped to deal with the rising demand for its services. Reform is necessary for the middle-aged organization. States touchy about sovereignty and interest groups pushing their agendas must sink their differences and work out a plan to revitalize the world body. They might consider giving it an independent source of income and some standing troops for enforcement power.
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- Russia, China Call for Reforms at United Nations
-- Russia and China called on Thursday for reform of the United Nations to uphold its pivotal role in world affairs. Both countries are permanent veto-wielding members of the U.N. Security Council, the organization's decision-making body circumvented by the U.S. decision to go to war in Iraq without explicit U.N. backing...
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- The Liberty League: An Alternative to the United Nations
-- This "Liberty League" could then know for certain that all of its member states are truly committed to the same goals, namely the preservation of their sovereignty, international free trade, the protection of private property, and the protection of individual rights.
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- The UN in 2003: a year of living dangerously
-- The crisis over Iraq has brought the United Nations to a crossroads. At the end of a year when diplomacy was felled by force, the institution can regain its influence only by rethinking its core security mandate.
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- Things Kofi Annan can do now
-- The UN, centre stage in the prelude to the Iraq war, has been sidelined since its outbreak. But the organisation does not need to take its marching orders from sovereign governments. Its Secretary General, Kofi Annan, can seize the diplomatic initiative with five immediate, practical steps.
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- UN Plan for a New Crisis Unit Opposed by Wary Poor Nations
-- [Global Policy Forum] (November 26, 2000) Many developing countries are concerned that implementation of the Brahimi report will shift resources to peacekeeping at the expense of development. This might lead poor countries to block some of the implementation proposals in the General Assembly.
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- UN Reform? Not Anytime Soon, But....
-- (October 1999) World Federalists of Canada's interview with Global Policy Forum's executive director, James A. Paul. Paul discusses the current state of UN reform including reform of the Security Council, sanctions and the implications of Kosovo. Paul also discusses UN initiatives to work with corporations and the UN's relationship with NGOs.
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