Aknauta
03-11-2003, 03:31 PM
Wall Street Journal
Keep the U.N. United
Will the Security Council live up to its responsibility?
BY KOFI A. ANNAN
Tuesday, March 11, 2003 12:01 a.m. EST
The Charter of the United Nations is categorical. "In order to ensure prompt and effective action by the United Nations," it confers on the Security Council "primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security." That responsibility can seldom have weighed more heavily on the members of the council than it does this week. Within the next day or two, they have to make a momentous choice.
The context of that choice is an issue whose importance is by no means confined to Iraq: the threat posed to all humanity by weapons of mass destruction. The whole international community needs to act together to curb the proliferation of these terrible weapons, wherever it may be happening.
link (http://www.opinionjournal.c om/editorial/feature.html?id=1100 03184)
Keep the U.N. United
Will the Security Council live up to its responsibility?
BY KOFI A. ANNAN
Tuesday, March 11, 2003 12:01 a.m. EST
The Charter of the United Nations is categorical. "In order to ensure prompt and effective action by the United Nations," it confers on the Security Council "primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security." That responsibility can seldom have weighed more heavily on the members of the council than it does this week. Within the next day or two, they have to make a momentous choice.
The context of that choice is an issue whose importance is by no means confined to Iraq: the threat posed to all humanity by weapons of mass destruction. The whole international community needs to act together to curb the proliferation of these terrible weapons, wherever it may be happening.
link (http://www.opinionjournal.c om/editorial/feature.html?id=1100 03184)