The World - News from Oct. 1, 1985
The United Nations has been overwhelmed by outdated and imprecise ideas and is in a state of virtual paralysis on its 40th birthday, a U.N. watchdog group said in Geneva. A report prepared for the anniversary called for reforms to set up a “third generation world organization after the two experiments of the League of Nations and the United Nations.” The report’s author, a former French official, said that attempts at reform failed because member states have failed to try to understand the reasons for U.N. ineffectiveness.
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