The Associated Press
March 22, 2008
NEW YORK: Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned Thursday that military action against Iran would be “a real disaster” and the Middle East could explode if the international community does not handle the many conflicts in the region very carefully.
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He said there was “quite a bit of hypocrisy on all sides” in trying to resolve the five-year conflict in Darfur, especially in encouraging the African Union to take on peacekeeping when everyone knew it had no resources. He also criticized well-equipped countries for refusing to provide essential helicopters for the joint AU-U.N. force that took over peacekeeping in January.
At a wide-ranging round-table with invited journalists, Annan urged U.N. member states to heed the warning of peacekeeping chief Jean-Marie Guehenno that with more than 100,000 troops in the field, U.N. peacekeeping operations are overstretched.
“I don’t think the U.N. is in a position today to go and take over in Afghanistan,” he said. “I don’t think the U.N. will get the resources to go and play a major and active role in Somalia. We are already struggling to get the resources for Darfur, where some have declared it a genocide.”
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