Big players elbow on U.N. Security Council.(USA)

From: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: September 18, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Howard LaFranchi Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

United Nations, N.Y. -- As the United Nations Security Council took up Russia's invasion of Georgia last month, a heated repartee ensued between the Russian and American representatives that had longtime UN hands wondering if the bad old days of the cold war had returned.

After an eyebrow-raising Russian veto of a Security Council resolution on Zimbabwe in July, the council's inability to reach any consensus on the Georgia crisis is reinforcing fears that a newly assertive Russia - one increasingly ...

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