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UN Vigilance
Инспекторы ООН в Ираке не сильно напрягались:
UN inspectors in Iraq spent their working hours drinking vodka while ignoring a shadowy nocturnal fleet believed to be smuggling goods for Saddam Hussein
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Other inspectors had spent most of the day in hotel rooms while others drank beer and talked to the local people.
Inspectors were supposed to check lorries to make sure the UN sanctions regime was being enforced.
Хорошо хоть бухали. А то бывало и хуже.
UN inspectors in Iraq spent their working hours drinking vodka while ignoring a shadowy nocturnal fleet believed to be smuggling goods for Saddam Hussein
/.../
Other inspectors had spent most of the day in hotel rooms while others drank beer and talked to the local people.
Inspectors were supposed to check lorries to make sure the UN sanctions regime was being enforced.
Хорошо хоть бухали. А то бывало и хуже.
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They were among those named in an internal U.N. investigation last year that uncovered evidence that blue-helmeted peacekeepers in the Congo routinely abused women and girls as young as 13. A report documented cases in which peacekeepers lured poverty-stricken teenagers into sex by offering them eggs, milk, or tiny sums of money.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the Security Council last week that new policies were in place forbidding U.N. peacekeepers from what is called "fraternization" with the local population.
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