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Eight Ace · 01-31-2003, 11:29 PM

...the UN sets its agenda and sticks to the rules...unfortunately, the people they go up against don't play by the rules,
and the UN forces have no spontaneity to counter that without more meetings, vetoes etc.

...also, this sort of thing doesn,t help,

Iraq to chair U.N. disarmament conference
From Richard Roth
CNN New York Bureau
Wednesday, January 29, 2003 Posted: 6:49 AM EST (1149 GMT)

UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Iraq will chair the United Nations' most important disarmament negotiating forum during the
panel's May session. At the rules-minded United Nations, it's not a country's status with international weapons
inspectors, but the letters in its name that determine which member state chairs the Conference on Disarmament.

"The irony is overwhelming," a U.S. diplomat said. eek:

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Eight Ace is Offline Major Posts: 6,139 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Sydney	01-31-2003, 11:29 PM ...the UN sets its agenda and sticks to the rules...unfortunately, the people they go up against don't play by the rules, and the UN forces have no spontaneity to counter that without more meetings, vetoes etc. ...also, this sort of thing doesn,t help, Iraq to chair U.N. disarmament conference From Richard Roth CNN New York Bureau Wednesday, January 29, 2003 Posted: 6:49 AM EST (1149 GMT) UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Iraq will chair the United Nations' most important disarmament negotiating forum during the panel's May session. At the rules-minded United Nations, it's not a country's status with international weapons inspectors, but the letters in its name that determine which member state chairs the Conference on Disarmament. "The irony is overwhelming," a U.S. diplomat said. eek: