Saturday, Sept. 17, 2005 | 4:03 a.m.
I appreciated your articles last Sunday criticizing the effectiveness of the United Nations. But they missed the primary reason that the U.N. is not meeting its original charter.
When it was formed in 1945, it had 50 members. The majority of these nations were relatively responsible. Since then the U.N. has admitted every tyrant and miscreant that came calling. Participation should be limited to those countries that are responsible to their citizens.
There is no reason to let North Korea, Zimbabwe or Syria have any input into what the world's priorities should be. Admittance should be a carrot to encourage reform and freedom.
Having Libya, Rwanda or Cuba monitoring human-rights abuses is laughable and leads to the sorry state that the U.N. is in.
It should be reformed and renamed. How does the United Democratic Nations, or United Free Nations, sound?
JEFFREY S. MARKEWICH
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