Doubters need only recall the unwillingness of Secretary General after Secretary General, from U Thant to Kofi Annan, to meet with – or, in some cases, even to permit on the UN’s premises – victims of human rights violations who had the misfortune of being born in powerful countries. For all the UN’s intellectual commitment to the furtherance of human rights, it knows better than to incite the displeasure of the Chinese or the Russians by receiving activists from Tibet or Chechnya.
质疑者只要想想从吴丹到科菲·安南的历任联合国秘书长都不愿会见，甚至在某些情况下不愿在联合国办公地接待那些不幸出生在强大国家的破坏人权行为的受害者就非常清楚了。尽管联合国在理智上致力于推进人权运动的发展，但它却没有傻到为了接待来自西藏或车臣的活动人士而激起中国或俄国人的不满。