Changing the United Nations
Years ago, during the Cold War, US Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles wise-cracked that, "The United Nations was
not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be
good before you got in, and not that being in would make you good"!
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Future of Sri Lanka - some reflections
As it was the situation seemed bleak. A long
standing problem that was initially caused by some representatives
of pre-war Ceylon National Legislature asking for 50-50 status for
the Tamils where they were only 18% of the population.
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Some challenges before NAM
If one were to resort to the jargon
of the political scientist, the 14th Nonaligned Movement Summit
which opens in Havana, Cuba today, would present to the world, "a
balance of political forces" which is most thought-provoking and
interesting.
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