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Subject: SNET: Clinton calls for UN Army
Date: 6 Sep 2000 17:25:23 -0400
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Clinton Calls for U.N. Army

        Austin Ruse
        Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2000, 12:34 p.m. EST

   President Bill Clinton told world leaders gathered today in
   New York that the United Nations needs a rapid deployment force of
   well-trained and well-equipped soldiers capable of projecting
   "credible force" into trouble spots.

   Clinton was the first head of state to speak at the largest
   gathering of world leaders in history, attending the U.N.
   Millennium Summit.

   Clinton spoke almost exclusively on the "making and keeping of
   peace."

   "There are assembled here more people with the power to create
   peace than have ever gathered together in one place in the
   history of the world. Can we seize this moment?"

   He said that most wars now occur within borders and are caused
   principally by "ethnic and religious" differences.

   He said national sovereignty and territorial integrity should take
   a back seat to keeping the peace.

   "Whether it is diplomacy, sanctions, or collective force, we must
   find ways to protect people as well as borders. There are times
   when the international community must take a side -- not merely
   stand between the sides."

   Clinton's call for a U.N. rapid deployment force -- effectively a
   standing army at the disposal of the United Nations -- will
   certainly fuel efforts by Democrats in Congress to deploy 6,000
   American soldiers for permanent U.N. service.

   His proposal will also give political conservatives increasing fear

   the U.N. will become an independent political force with its own
   military arm.

   Clinton criticized the U.S. Congress for holding up payment of
   U.S. U.N. dues. "All nations, including my own, must meet our
   obligations to the U.N. Those who believe we can either do without
   the U.N., or impose our will upon it, have not learned from
   history and do not understand the future."

   Clinton spoke to a packed U.N. General Assembly Hall with overflow
   jammed into conference rooms in the U.N. basement.

   In the Hall were all the major leaders of the world, including
   French President Jacques Chirac, British Prime Minister Tony Blair,

   and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. Cuban president Fidel
   Castro, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israel’s Ehud Barak,
   Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin, and the Princes of
   Monaco, Morocco and Saudi Arabia were also present.

   In his remarks, Vladimir Putin called for a U.N. conference to be
   convened in Moscow for the prevention of weapons in space; a
   proposal aimed directly at the proposed U.S. intercontinental
   missile shield.

   All leaders are expected to address the conference, which will
   continue through Friday.



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