Summary
THE United Nations yesterday failed to agree a common global standard on terrorism, fuelling western leaders' fears that the world body is not willing to confront one of the defining threats of the age.
After 150 United Nations leaders, who were meeting in New York, watered down a new doctrine setting out an agreed definition of terrorism, Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, warned world governments that their "division and hesitations" amounted to weakness in the face of the threat.See the full content of this document
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Un Unable Even to Define Terrorism As 160 Slaughtered
The disappointment of the United Nations General Assembly was starkly underlined by events thousands of miles away in Iraq, where more than 160 people were killed in a series of bomb attacks linked to the al-Qaeda network.
Western officials fear that without a common ...See the full content of this document
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