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Learning from the difficulties

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    The United Nations will have to learn from the many difficulties its mission in Sierra Leone has faced in recent weeks, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in his latest report to the Security Council.

    “Looking back on recent events, it is obvious that the United Nations will have to draw lessons from its experiences in Sierra Leone,” he said in the report, issued on Monday. “The force, which had been designed, equipped and deployed as a peacekeeping force, was quickly forced into actual combat with one of the parties that had pledged to cooperate with it.”

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