Next month the great and good gather in New York for the un's millennium summit, a grand affair that promises monumental tedium. It could yet be useful if the heads of state and government arrive armed not only with their own speeches but with copies of the un's report, published this week, on what member states, and the un itself, might do to rescue peacekeeping from the tragic farce it has shown itself to be in Rwanda, Bosnia and, most recently, in Sierra Leone.
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