Albania's view at the UN.?
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Albania has sent small military [peacekeeping] units in Bosnia, Afganistan, Iraq, and in the near future Lebanon.\n\nEnvironmental Protection in Albania:\nhttp://enrin.grida.no/htmls/albania/reports/tech/docs/tec_inst.pdf
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Tung :-D\n (ignore those who are being rude to your country)\n\nIt is hard to know an exact figure because of how people classify statistics... What is an Albanian...someone that can speak Albanian or someone who maybe 200 years ago had an Albanian ancestor??\n\nHowever these figures from wikipedia...seem quite agreed upon...\n\nThere are approximately 8 millions Albanians...\n\n3.8 million live in Albania...so about 4.2 MILLION...live world wide...\n\nThe places with the largest number of Albanians outside Albania include...\n\nKosovo 2.2 million,\nMacedonia half a million\nGreece 6 hundred thousand\n\nand Italy 233000\n Germany, 400000\n Switzerland,200000\nand USA 114000\n\nAnd the number of Albanians in Turkey is impossible to know because Turkey doe not collect census figures on that...\nBut there most be a large population of Albanian origin because of Albania's Ottoman past ...and large population movement after the Balkan wars at the beginning of the 20th century...
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Yes, UN is outdated and could not survive without the U.S.A. The big fix is that the security council needs to be re-constituted with the following most populous and influential nations in the 21st Century:\n\nUSA\nChina\nRussia\nIndia\nEuropean Union\nIndonesia\nBrazil
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Kofi Annan is presently the Secretary General of the UN. There is no post of Secretary for the UN.
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Yes, if you examine their stance on Israel, alone and surrounded by enemies.  Israel has no choice but to aggressively pursue self-defense.  Yet it is a beacon of justice and liberty in the region.  \n\nI think the UN reflects the majority of world governments:  corrupt and hypocritical.
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"...Many years will pass and some czars, mighty\nand those as not, will stop obeying that Court,\nthough considering it with words. They will act to their own\nwill..."\n\nThis XIX century prophesy could best describe UN. When it was established, UN did seem to have a purpose. The most sensitive purpose was to mediate in conflicts between countries. Today, it is rather a mechanism in the hands of those who are above it - the ones who finance it. UN officials are like parrots who have been tought how to evade provocative pinpointing questions.\n\nIf bending and playing blind to the mightier and violating own charters (like during their entire involvement in ex Yugoslavia, against the Serbs) is a way to survive as Organization; despite how poltronic and corruptive as it is, and still be capable to send a handful of food packages to the hungry children in Africa, although almost all of it would be taken away from the hands of the children by the local warlords there, then I guess some children won't die that day. That is one good purpose. \n\nTo the bottom line, just having a chance of being heard in UN, is extremely good today, in this era of mediatic manipulation. That is why some countries have been demembered from UN at some crytical times... Their voices were too damaging to some UN dark purposes... Evil is not always capable of looking at its own reflection on the mirror, and at times the mask of UN is needed.\n\nThere are some good people in UN. These people fight the bad people in UN. Sometimes the bad people are not "motivated," and the good people manage to do some good.
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As if \nlol!\nEven though they founded the UN, and they house the UN, they seem incapable of working with the rest of the world at times!
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http://www.un.org/News/ossg/fy.htm
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I'm in Peja, Albanian (pronounced : payer) or Pec, Serbian (pron : petch). Its in the western part of Kosovo near the border of Montenegro. I'm working with the United Nations. I don't think its weird though - just a bit behind the rest of Europe.
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See the information posted here:\nhttp://www.unog.ch/80256EE60057CB67/(httpPages)/6198E1266DB7B16480256EF80049A2F2?OpenDocument
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Kofi Annan is a dweeb.\n\nThe United Nations holds virtually no power or authority, and frankly, they don't really support the USA on any issues (look up the US voting record in the UN, and look up the UN's final decision).  Yet America supplies most of their funding and stuff.\n\nThe concept is good, but the results have been poor, from a US perspective.
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The organization is biased. Specifically, it is biased towards the 5 permanent members of the Security Council (Russia, United States, United Kingdom, France, China.) The Security Council passes some of the most important measures in the UN and is usually the one that prompts a serious international effort (not the general assembly as might be believed.) It has those 5 permanent members and 10 elected members. Yet if a measure goes to vote there and ends up 14 For and 1 Against, and the one "against" happens to be one of those 5 permanent members... The measure fails. \n\n14-1 and 1 wins. This is why the UN can't usually pass any serious measures. Most major world problems involve 1 of these 5 countries and therefore they and they alone can prevent any action against their interests by simply vetoing the resolution, regardless of world opinion.
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Without significant reform it is unlikely to continue with a meaningful existance, but I think most western nations will force this to happen before allowing it to completely dissolve.\n\nAt the end of the day it is a forum to get the nations of the world around a single table. Naturally, it is not possible to drive clear consensus in such situations. So it is difficult to criticize it because of inaction or slowness. I doubt there is a silver bullet to that particular problem.\n\nTo think the UN can resolve major issues facing the world today is niaive. At the end of the day that will fall on the shoulders of the larger nations. What it cannot do is get in the way. It must ensure dialogue is flowing and that diplomatic solutions are pursued to global issues. However once these grind to a halt or fail, it must excuse itself from the proceedings.
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The idea of the United Nations is a great one.  In the sense that it provides a forum for nations to discuss their differences and develop compromises it does what is intended.  However, it has also been very ineffectual in stopping differences between nations which have entered into violent relationships.\n\nIt also promotes and lifts up to high positions nations which treat their own people in a terrible manner, thereby rewarding nations for not following the mission of the United Nations.  \n\nIt seems that the possibility of breaking up the United Nations is becoming increasingly likely.  Maybe that would be best and to begin again with a new direction.  Certainly many nations would (apparently) be happier if the United States simply left the United Nations and, maybe that would be best.
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You should do more research on the UN. They don't get any publicity when they are successful. They have prevented many civil wars since the 70's, such as Crete, Haiti, etc.
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This time, I don't care if the U.S. has to, metaphorically, take the UN by the scruff of the neck and smash their smug, self-righteous faces into the conference table.  I don't care if we have to berate and belittle them.  The UN is making itself IRRELEVANT.  It never does anything but talk.\n\nAnother person just wrote about the killings and starvation deaths in Rwanda and the Sudan, tacitly approved by the UN through their inaction.  We need a public relations campaign to improve the image of the U.S., and to expose the UN for the frauds they are.
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Yes.  The UN is ineffective.  Look at Darfur.  They have done nothing to stop the genocide.  And the libs wanted nothing to be done in Iraq either.  I guess gassing the Kurds and torturing innocents is nothing to be concerned about