Gideon Rachman takes Alan Beattie's advice:

An ineffectual international organisation yesterday issued a stark warning about a situation it has absolutely no power to change, the latest in a series of self-serving interventions by toothless intergovernmental bodies.

But the photo-ops make everyone feel important, no?

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