Peacekeeping 'pushed to limit'

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From correspondents in the United Nations
September 8, 2004

UN peacekeeping operations across the globe are expanding in number and scope, pushing the capacity of the United Nations close to the breaking point, Secretary General Kofi Annan said today.

"The increased demand for United Nations peace operations that has arisen in 2004 represents a challenge not seen since the rapid increases in the scale and complexity of operations in the 1990s," Mr Annan said.

"The heightened demand will stretch, to the limit and beyond, the capacity of the United Nations to respond," he said in an annual report.

At the beginning of the year, UN peacekeepers were working in 13 countries, Mr Annan said.

Since then, the world body has expanded its mission in Ivory Coast, started new operations in Burundi and Haiti, and is planning new or extended operations in Iraq and Sudan, he said.


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1. UN

I am tired of being required to get permission slips from the UN
to defend America..................Bushism

Dont you just love to hear that from the republicans

When during the time when the UN was chartered, we have never
recieved or required one, the UN is for peacekeeping, not waging
war