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Do you agree with the view that despite the limitations in the functioning of the UN, it has distinguished and unique achievements to its credit?

  • UPSC 2017
  • 15 marks
  • United Nations

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Dag Hammarskjöld supplied the yardstick at Berkeley in 1954: the UN was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell. Judged against the Charter's promise to end "the scourge of war", the record disappoints; judged against the League of Nations, and against a body with no army or revenue of…

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  • Limitations in functioning
  • Distinguished and unique achievements
  • Weighing the record
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