Next year marks 70 years since the signing of the United Nations charter.Our own Rachel Martin recently talked with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright,who was also U.S. Ambassador to the UN, about its achievements and its shortcomings.There are problems within the Secretariat. I think that it's slow acting, and it's a bureaucracy.And I've always made jokes about the fact that the UN is a little bit like an organization run by a board of directors of 193 countries, or people,who want to get their son-in-law a job.If you had to point to one reform that could make a lot of difference, what would that be?I do think that one of the reforms would be not to have what I call the dictatorship of the alphabetwhere all of a sudden you end up with some country that should not be head of the Human Rights Council just because it's alphabetically in order.As Libya was.Yes, exactly. The Security Council's a little bit of a Rubik's cube in terms of trying to get solutions and trying to figure out the power of the veto.I can't see the United States giving up our power of the veto.So there are some serious issues in terms of who are the legitimate members, how does the Security Council operate?I would like to talk a little bit more about how you see the United Nations providing leadership in this moment, especially on security issues.
