There was the US government’s eleventh-hour decision to table hundreds of objections to the final Summit Declaration, effectively reducing it to a series of lowest-common-denominator platitudes. There was also skepticism among developing countries about whether a stronger UN commitment to human rights was what Annan claimed it to be or, instead, merely a moral flag of convenience – or worse, a legal warrant for Western military intervention.
导致失败的原因一言难尽。其中既有美国政府在最后时刻将反对会议声明的几百项不同意见置之不理，从而把这份声明缩减为没有任何实质意义的陈词滥调；也有发展中国家对联合国的更多努力是否诚如安南所言尚存疑虑，他们害怕所谓的人权运动不过又是一个现成的借口¾甚至更糟，沦为西方军事干涉的法律依据。