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The UN hopes that the talks it initiated in Morocco will bear fruit
by October. Yet it is questionable how permanent any result achieved
by the UN will be.

Peace has never come to any country in which the UN has sup-
posedly brought about a complete cessation of conflict. No country in
which peace is only established on paper can grow and develop unless
peace is also established in people's hearts. The clearest example of this
is Bosnia during the disintegration of Yugoslavia. We cannot forget the

role of the UN in what happened in the past in Bosnia and in its cur-
rent troubles.
The UN's endeavors to bring peace to the country are supremely

well-intentioned, and for that, they should be praised; but the failure
to produce any ideas or projects for a lasting peace remains a glaring
deficiency. Bringing representatives of different tribes and different
authorities together by giving them rank and titles and positions will
do nothing for the country, as we saw in the example of Bosnia, and
will simply make the running of the country impossible.

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