United Nations [antikvár]

Not a single day There are many threats to the welfare of the world's population and each one is the concern of the United Nations. Some arise from natural causes such as droughts, floods, crop failure and disease. Others are problems that people create for themselves, such as trading rivalries between nations, injustices felt by one religious or ethnic group compared with another and oppressive systems of government. And then there is war.One of the main reasons for the founding of the United Nations was "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war", hi August 1992, there were over fifty-five thousand troops, drawn from the forces of United Nations member countries and wearing the UN's sky-blue helmets or berets, serving in twelve of the worid's trouble spots. In the Middle East, UN peacekeeping forces were in Jerusalem, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Kuwait. In Asia, UN personnel were supervising a truce line in Kashmir between India and Pakistan that was first established in 1949, and a large force of twenty thousand troops and advisors was bringing order to postwar chaos in Cambodia. In Africa, there were United Nations forces in Angola, Somcdia and the Westem Sahara. In Central America, in El Salvador, UN military observers were keeping a check on human rights and the end of a civil war between rebels and the government. On the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, UN soldiers patrolled the "!jeace line" between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.Nowhere are patience and perseverance needed more than in the United Nations' peace-keeping activities. Although there has been no worid war since 1945, there has not been a single day when fighting was not going on somewhere. In these one hundred or more "small wars", more people have died than were killed during the six years of Worid War E.Opposite and below: Two men with guns, each fiercely believing in their separate cause. Each member ofthe United Nations peace-keeping force volunteers to save the world from "the scourge of war". It requires a special kind of devotion to duty; they must always respond to violence with calmness and tolerance.