The United Nations is an association of independent national states. It is noted as a peacekeeping organization that plays an important role in world relations. Their supreme goal is to end war. It was expected that the great powers would work together to keep the peace. However, the United Nations means of maintaining world peace and security has been questionable as to how effective it has been. The rising importance of global human rights is challenging long-established international relations and diplomatic principles, in particular the idea of non-intervention and non-interference in the domestic affairs of sovereign states. United Nations (UN) Secretary General Kofi Annan has often referred to the resulting incoherence between emerging human rights norms that seem to permit external intervention when gross human rights violations are perpetrated, and the cardinal principle of the inviolability of sovereign states embodied in the UN Charter. Hence, efforts to defend human rights worldwide may give rise to curious problems and contradictions. For example, to cite some recent and controversial case, the 1999 NATO war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia that was intended to protect the rights of the Kosovo Albanians and also the Kashmir Crisis, may have been legitimate, but not legal.
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