Smirnov, M.G. On necessity of improvement of universal means of protections of persons, who suffered from the non-international armed conflict.

Abstract: Nowadays the world community is rather skeptical towards the peace-keeping operations of the UN in local conflicts, as well as towards the actions of the Security Council of the UNO, which passes its powers to specific states or regional organizations (the USA, the Great Britain, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization). M.G. Smirnov's article contains critical analysis of the UN practice in this sphere, based on examples of Somalia, Haiti, Cyprus, Yugoslavia, etc. Author presents his study of key problems of modern peace-making activities, key provisions of humanitarian law, perspectives of their development.