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/ 14 December 2004

Blueprint to render the UN fit for the 21st century

A visit to the United States is a salutary reminder that Europe and the US are divided not only by an ocean but by an equally deep difference in their media agendas. Part of the problem with their negative coverage of the United Nations is that the US media tend to talk about the UN as if it were a different continent that readers might find somewhere in an atlas, writes Robin Cook.