"If there is not a sustained cessation of violence, full freedom of movement for U.N. personnel and rapid, meaningful progress on all other aspects of the six-point plan, then we must all conclude this mission has run its course, " Rice said.

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Founded in 1945 in San Francisco, the U.N. was once a magnificent opportunity to advance freedom in the world.

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