WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! THE NEW WORLD DISORDER Leaders lean toward consensus on U.N. Limited sovereignty for nations, larger power base for global body ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- By Mary Jo Anderson � 2000 WorldNetDaily.com Editor's note: Reporter Mary Jo Anderson is in New York attending both the United Nations Millennium Summit and the State of the World Forum. This is her latest report for WND. By Mary Jo Anderson � 2000, WorldNetDaily.com, Inc. NEW YORK - The answer to the big question being posed at the Millennium Summit and State of the World Forum - namely, "What is the role of the U.N. for the 21st century?" - seems to boil down to limited sovereignty for nations and a vastly expanded power base for the United Nations. Reputed to be the biggest gathering of heads of state in history, the twin events yesterday dealt with questions like: Is the power of nations declining, replaced by multinational corporations and transnational non-governmental organizations? When civil wars erupt and genocide ensues, who should be the world's enforcer of human rights? Should the United Nations serve its members, the nation states, or move into the role of guarantor of human rights wherever they are violated, without regard for the sovereignty of nations? As questions like these were put to a panel on day two on the United Nations Millennium Summit, across town, popular British BBC television host Tim Sebastian brought his crew to New York to film roundtable discussions with members of the world's "braintrust" appearing at the State of the World Forum. The Forum, a project of the Gorbachev Foundation, is running concurrently with the Millennium Summit. At the Forum yesterday, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs James Rubin squared off against Mary Robinson, U.N. high commissioner of human rights as well as billionaire Canadian financier George Soros. Other panelists included Gen. Romeo Dallaire, former U.N. commander in Rwanda and Sir Brian Urquhart, former U.N. undersecretary general. Sebastian launched an early salvo, charging, "The U.N. has a rather tarnished image with its peacekeeping failures." Film footage rolled overhead while panelists watched the disastrous Bosnian engagement where Dutch U.N. peacekeepers stood by as 7,000 Bosnian Muslims were murdered. Clips from the 1994 Rwandan massacre exposed a visibly distressed Gen. Dallaire, who was in charge during that mission and had pleaded for more U.N. troops, and got silence for his pains. When help arrived, Dallaire was disgusted. "You are all late-- weeks and weeks late," he said at the time. An estimated one million Rwandans were murdered. The BBC host moved on to the ongoing strife in East Timor and Sierra Leone. Dallaire spoke quickly, laying the fault for failure to respond not on the U.N., but on the nations of the Security Council. "Every sovereign state that puts self-interest before humanity. That's the dogma of the global market," he said. Rubin, however, blamed the "collective failure of all the nations." Delays, Rubin noted, are natural when no immediate exterior threat is present and while hope still exists that a country will work out its own difficulties. The U.S. did finally act in Kosovo," noted Rubin, and ".... we're talking about moral interventions [in Kosovo]." Rubin distinguished between interventions based on national interest and intrusion into the internal affairs of nations based on a moral principle. But Soros refused to grant Rubin a hall pass, saying, "The Kosovo crisis had been brewing 10 years." Commissioner Robinson interjected, "The point is... the heads of state are all here [at the U.N. Summit, and] they must put much more emphasis on prevention." Soros insisted that "if the democracies of the West had paid attention, Milosovic could not have come to power." Rubin, exasperated by several remarks unfavorable to U.S. foreign policy, responded, "But once he was in power, the only answer was military power," adding that prevention as a preemptive action requires a gross breech of sovereignty. Rubin suggested that not every conflict can be prevented. Robinson reminded the panel that Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, had addressed the heads of state about the "crisis of confidence in the U.N.'s peacekeeping capacity." She called for greater capacity for U.N. missions by strengthening financial support, providing troops and a defined mechanism for taking action. Sir Brian Urquhart objected to the expectation that the U.N. should assume the role of a government. "People compare the U.N. to a government, which it isn't," he said. The problem is the old model of peacekeeping, he added, and that "nations are extremely sensitive [about intervention]." Dallaire urged that the position of Annan be taken as the model. "Humanity is the issue [as opposed to sovereignty]. My ire is at the Security Council," said the general. Robinson agreed that the "focus is on human security . The border of national sovereignty isn't a cut-off. We must mainstream human rights." Urquhart labeled any attempt to solve every dispute under the U.N. Charter as it stands as "absurd." Reminding panelists that the United Nations was instituted to avoid World War III, he said that to send the U.N. into full-time peacekeeping would require a "completely changed structure." His comment summed up the thrust of the discussion. The debate unfolded as though it was a choreographed dance, leading the audience through the horrors of Somalia, Rwanda, Kosovo, the deaths three days ago of the U.N. peacekeeping personnel, and finally, to the conclusion. And that conclusion was that the answer to the central question this week regarding the future role of the United Nations is limited national sovereignty and a much larger power base for the global body. Rapidly, Soros, Dallaire and Robinson weighed in on the necessity to make "human security the emphasis" of the U.N.'s mission. Robinson asked, "What needs to be put into the pot to strengthen peacekeeping?" Dallaire had said earlier, "You need a new doctrinal base." Soros agreed, saying the U.N. Charter was written in terms of states and each country defending its own interests -- an international patronage system. What is needed now, he said, is a lot more power to the secretary general -- a "centralized power" required for a new, improved United Nations in the 21st century. Rubin replied, "Soros is right: Is the U.N. for the member nations? Some emphasize 'secretary' while others emphasize 'general.'" "The vision on the table," said Dallaire, "is in 'We the Peoples.'. 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