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A seat at the high table

A pejorative wisecrack on the United Nations is that it has become the “useless non-existent organisation.” For example, in 1999, the then UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, suddenly flew to Delhi to “mediate” in the Kargil War only to be politely told by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government to mind his own business and be gone. It is reported that this international body employs some 1,00,000 employees.

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