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Real-world dilemmas facing the UN

Alfred de Zayas, a former UN official, recalls when he joined the UN in 1980, secretariat staff genuinely upheld multilateralism and regarded the UN Charter as a quasi-world constitution. Decades on, some UN bodies have grown politicized. The principle that every nation may choose its own governance path goes unenforced.

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