News stories by Lord Mark Malloch-Brown

LONDON, Nov 03 (IPS) - You cannot change the wind; but you can bend the sail - a favourite African proverb of Kofi Annan

Let me begin with an appeal to our venerable friend, the UN: get down on the ground with the grandchildren. Just having celebrated its 75th birthday, we can hear your knees creak! The UN, for as long as I have known it up close - since its thirties - has often seemed prematurely old.