Kofi Annan - dediščina

| 21. December 2006 | | Jure

Zgodovinski pregled delovanja Združenih narodov kaže, da je delovanje slednjih še kako odvisno od osebnosti generalnega sekretarja, ki lahko včasih celo preseže (ali pa tudi ne) njeno ujetost v interese posameznih članic in skupin. Kakšna je dediščina Kofija Annana? Članek iz Salona.

Traub thinks the Americans were unprepared for what they got. Annan turned out to be a quiet but methodical advocate for the U.N. with an unexpected kind of star power. When he was elevated to secretary-general, the far-right isolationist wing of the Republican Party was reaching the apogee of its opposition to the U.N., complete with myths about “black helicopters.” In concert with Clinton administration U.N. ambassador Richard Holbrooke, Annan reached out to then-Sen. Jesse Helms, who had been leading an effort to slash the U.S.’s contribution to the U.N. if it failed to undertake a range of practical and ideological changes. Annan and Holbrooke ultimately won Helms over, and neutralized the anti-U.N. faction in Congress — for a while. Več.