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course of action and UN plans include: bypassing the United Nations Security Council and thereby overriding any solutions they may have agreed upon. Attacking Yugoslav military forces while NATO forces remain unprovoked is in direct discord of both UN and NATO protocol. The NATO peace-keepers have become a side, their roles in Kosovo have elevated beyond merely taking one [a side]. And should an invasion occur, the numbers of troops will not have been cleared by all governments involved. Finally, the method used in the decision to attack was not democratic [for a subsidiary United Nations organization]; there was no vote to initiate offensive tactics. As a result of this recent crisis, UN powers have been ultimately tested. Humanitarian efforts to aid refugees are slow and for

the most part, inadequate at best. Major powers involved with the NATO alliance have reversed the role for the UN. It now takes orders instead of giving them. And the NATO role as the aggressor looks shaky after three months of consistent air strikes which appear to many to be of no avail. Yet because the UN did resolve the conflict to the best of their ability in 1995, and relative peace was returned into the states of Montenegro, Croatia, and Macedonia, United Nations’ tactics have been proven to work. Throughout the past 50 years, the United Nations has been establishing itself as a major player in economic, social and political fields. Its roots were modest, to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war” (Charter, 1) but developed to include a network of

humanitarian aid, political alliances, and economic organizations. And while being tested by an auxiliary organization, the United Nations remains strong. It is just a matter of time before new alliances will aid NATO forces, for “by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest [of all]” (Charter, 1). The United Nations began as a symbol of peace and will remain to be a figure of peace. By rising up against adversity in war torn Europe, it proved its worth socially, economically, politically, and militarily. Through its intentions and actions in both times of peace and war, the UN has become a major achievement of modern times. Yet, despite its shortcomings which were proven when the UN’s power

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