UN failures on coronavirus underscore the need for reforms

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The UN Security Council holds a meeting on the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, in this Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019 file photo, at United Nations headquarters. The coronavirus that has claimed nearly 1 million lives has underscored the failure of the United Nations to bring countries together to defeat it. We could criticize the U.N. for this but who are we really talking about, when we blame `the U.N.?' Switzerland President Simonetta Sommaruga asked. We are in fact talking about ourselves, because the U.N. is its member states. And it is often member states that stand in the way of the U.N.s work.(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)