ABSTRACT
Historians and political scientists hold various views about the end of the Cold War. During a summit to discuss post–Cold War policies, the UN Security Council members accepted a greater UN role in maintaining peace. In planning for the January 23 meeting, US Secretary of State James Baker began by dramatizing the need for a humanitarian aid conference known as Operation Provide Hope by first having the US air force airlift 38 million pounds of food and medicine to the former Soviet republics. The Human Rights Commission’s vote to condemn Cuba’s violations of human rights was a sign that former Communist nations in Eastern Europe were taking positions in the United Nations that differed from the Warsaw Pact’s uniform acceptance of Moscow’s positions before the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991. After the civilian chief of a UN peacekeeping force arrived on March 15, a coalition of Cambodian parties formed a Supreme National Council.
