It is with grave concern that we watch developments within the United Nations on the issue of Liberia. The international community has powerful and extensive information showing that Liberia's timber industry is heavily involved in the illicit trade of arms, while simultaneously providing large sums of extra-budgetary income to the Liberian government - a government that is supporting the notoriously brutal RUF rebels in Sierra Leone and is involved in the provision of funds to the terrorist network led by Osama bin Laden. These facts are well publicized, yet the UN seems to be moving in a dangerous if not neglectful direction in regards to this situation.