Posted on 12/05/2016 9:19:16 AM PST by rktman
The incoming secretary-general of the United Nations said that while globalization has been extremely successful in reducing poverty in many places, the world body needs to recognize that others have been left behind.
Antonio Guterres, a former prime minister of Portugal who takes over for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the beginning of the new year, also said the UN needs to be "more effective, more cost-effective, more able to serve the people with a very strong reform-minded approach."
Guterres met with President Obama on Friday in the Oval Office "to share ideas about where the secretary-general-designate intends to take the UN and how the United States can work effectively with him."
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Here’s a thought....let these developing countries develop.
Stop the aid, the meddling and the social engineering.
Those only make things worse.
Take the UN to Portugal, libtard.
Down with Globalization!
Up with individual sovereignty!
Trump should have nominated a bright high school student as Ambassador to the UN.
Translation = we just got our message wrong!
Pray tell, why would he consult with someone who will be out in six weeks?
The community organizer did such a poor job for the Chicago community and a worse job for the American community that they’re looking to give him the job of Almighty Organizer of the World Community.
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