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Despite the grand occasion of the United Nations' 50th anniversary, the world leaders who gathered to celebrate were anything but united. Instead, they used the platform to promote their own nations' interests and accomplishments, with some even resorting to rhetorical excesses and attempts to deflect criticism. As NPR&
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At the 50th anniversary general assembly of the United Nations, British Prime Minister John Major and French President Jacques Chirac engaged in a heated debate over peacekeeping contributions and debt payment. Major claimed that Britain was the leading provider of troops to UN peacekeeping operations, while Chirac emphasized France'
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The United States brokered an agreement Thursday with warring parties in the Balkans, calling for a 72-hour pause in NATO airstrikes, a cease-fire in Sarajevo, and the withdrawal of most Bosnian Serb heavy weapons from around the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina. As part of the arrangement, Russian peacekeepers may be deployed
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The United Nations is facing a severe financial crisis, with its regular operating expenses depleted in mid-August, prompting the organization to borrow $98 million from peacekeeping funds. This move has strained the already limited peacekeeping funds, which are now expected to face further diversion of funds. According to Under Secretary
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Substantial differences have emerged among US and European allies regarding the defense of Bosnia's Muslim enclave of Gorazde following a London conference. While the US pushed for a massive bombing campaign to protect all designated safe havens, France urged the use of US helicopters to ferry troops and
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The Islamic Bosnia Contact Group, comprising 52 member states of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), has announced its decision to defy the United Nations (UN) arms embargo on Bosnia, sending a significant signal to the West. The decision, made at a Geneva meeting of the Contact Group on Friday,
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The United Nations has moved to assert its mandate in eastern Bosnia, defying a Bosnian Serb ultimatum to leave the Srebrenica enclave. Dutch peacekeepers guarding the entrance to the town clashed with Bosnian Serb forces on July 11, 1995, with the Dutch troops firing on the advancing Bosnian Serb infantrymen.
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A tense standoff is unfolding in eastern Bosnia, where United Nations officials have authorized NATO air strikes if Bosnian Serbs attack a UN position or the Dutch peacekeepers stationed there. The threat of bombing and the detention of 30 Dutch peacekeepers by the Serbs raises the prospect of a new
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Canada's role in the former Yugoslavia is under scrutiny, with Prime Minister Jean Chretien expressing concerns about the effectiveness of the UN mission in Bosnia. Speaking at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Mr. Chretien highlighted the difficulties in maintaining peace in
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Deployment of 4,000 British troops to reinforce a disintegrating peacekeeping mission in former Yugoslavia has been further delayed due to Croatian cash demands and ongoing negotiations within the United Nations command. Despite being on standby since May, the airmobile brigade will not be available in Bosnia before early August,
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UN officials reported that two French soldiers were wounded on the Mount Igman road when a U.N. aid convoy came under fire from Bosnian Serbs for the third consecutive day. The convoy was tasked with delivering 60 tons of wheat flour to Sarajevo. In response to the attack, the
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Rising violence and shelling in besieged Sarajevo have resulted in the deaths of 13 civilians and the wounding of 81 others, with a mortar shell hitting the United Nations headquarters, injuring three peacekeepers and an embassy guard. The attack is a direct culmination of two days of escalating violence, which
