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[quote=JCNILE123,263922]The Big Five approve only those measures in the Security Council which are not in conflict with their national interests. The UN image is persistently declining because of its poor performance in Somalia, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Rwanda and Yemen. On the other hand it has acted too aggressively against Iraq. 
The military burden has, usually not been shared out equally. Although some Western governments - Britain and France, in particular - have blameless records, especially when there is a call from Washington, richest and most powerful nations make very insignificant contribution on the ground. Take for instance the case of Bosnia, US had about 650 troops attached to the force in Bosnia and a handful of military observers in Angola and the Western Sahara; Japan had 50 troops in Mozambique; Germany just five civilian policemen in Western Sahara and a brace of military observers in Georgia. The record of the Middle Eastern states is also not impressive. Kuwait and Saudi Arabia helped to pay for Operation Desert Storm in 1991, but they currently fail to contribute a single UN soldier between them.8 By contrast, the record of some of the poorer nations is impressive. The three nations of the South Asian subcontinent - India, Pakistan and Bangladesh - together account for 20 percent of the UN forces stationed around the world, while Zambia puts more troops at the UNÕs disposal than the US, Germany and Japan combined.9
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