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four separate sets of economic sanctions, the fact remains that Mahmud Ahmadinjad’s regime presses ahead with its illegal prolif- eration. The permanent members of the Secu- rity Council (P-5) and Germany will continue to push Iran for trans- parency in its nuclear efforts but don’t expect much.


Sudan’s horrible hu-


man rights crisis contin- ues both in the destitute region of Darfur and the largely Christian south. Sudan’s strongman General Omar al Bashir has balked at holding an agreed to referendum in Sudan’s south where a thirty-year rebellion had raged until 2005. The Sudan regime is equally intransigent of dealing with the genocide in its western Darfur province where UN peacekeep- ers and aid agencies are mired in limbo. In both cases the People’s Republic of China, Su- dan’s chief commercial and political protector assures the Khartoum rulers that they have


friends in high places. Somal ia remains a


perennial crisis. Not only is the country be- ing wracked by inter- Islamic violence, but Somali has emerged a haven for all kinds of terrorists and Al-Qaida franchise operations. The strategic country bordering Kenya and Ethiopia, and straddling vital maritime sea lanes off the Horn of Africa, has become a hornets nest of terror and pira- cy. Somali based piracy has emerged as a major challenge to shipping off East Africa. The UN regularly addresses the deteriorating situation in the Security Council. Humanitarian crises


are no less important as this column often stresses. Rebuilding Haiti after the devastat- ing January earthquake and helping Pakistan in the midst of the ongoing deluge of flooding, are two key issues confront- ing the overstretched UN humanitarian system. Still despite the press-


ing political challenges, the atmosphere of this somewhat off- balance


session is set not only to the backdrop of tu- multuous international events but to the dis- ruption of most of the UN complex itself. Given that the entire UN is un- der massive renovation and looking more like a banging and clanging construction site than the setting for diplomat- ic decorum, the session takes on a different aura and feel. With the exception of


the cavernous General Assembly hall where the major speeches are made, the rest of the complex is a work site including the 38 story Secretariat building. UN administrative offices are scattered around New York City. Crucial operations are centered in a modular building on the north lawn which evokes an IKEA store and not the setting, nor the agora, of interna- tional affairs.


John J. Metzler is a United Nations corre- spondent covering dip- lomatic and defense is- sues.


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