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Delivered October 16, 2007 The title of this lecture is an interesting starting point for a discussion. I think the answer differs depending on who you ask. My answer would be that no one "leads" the U.N. Certainly, the Secretary-General does not lead the organization. Not even former Secretary-General Kofi Annan described as a "secular pope" and the "conscience of the world" by his admirers was able to force the organization in a direction it was unwilling to go. Current Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is unlikely to be more successful than Annan. ....
U.N. advocates describe one country/one vote decision making asembodying the best principles of democracy, but it is actuallyquite different. The governments casting their equal votes in theGeneral Assembly represent vastly different numbers of people, andwhen many of the states casting those votes are not themselvesdemocratic, one may legitimately ask whose voices their votesrepresent. ....