(Telegraph-UK) - Barbara Amiel The United Nations has been a thorn in the side of the Free World since the mid-1970s, when UNESCO was taken over by unfree countries of the Third World and the General Assembly passed the "Zionism is racism" resolution in 1975. By now the UN, with its Human Rights Commission chaired by Libya, is not only irrelevant; it is coming perilously close to endangering world peace and security. The majority of its members are in breach of most tenets of the UN Charter and yet these same members are rewarded with plum UN assignments. In March, Iraq will assume the chairmanship of the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.
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