UN in dramatic climbdown after American pressure

news.telegraph ^ | 20/03/2005 | Charles Laurence

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The security of America and other wealthy countries will for the first time be declared a key priority for the United Nations under reforms designed to restore confidence in the crisis-ridden international body.

[motorola7]

This is a joke, right? Guess somebody jumped the gun on April Fools Day.

[Chgogal]

""We need to offer something for everyone, something for The Sunday Telegraph reader as well as the struggling African."

A leader needs to lead not be everything to everyone.

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US out of the UN, UN out of the US.

Nothing less.

[thoughtomator]

Unless it comes with Kofi's head on a platter, it's all a sham.

[Solamente]

At first I thought "huh?" Then it hit me:

Kofi wants to reduce the wind in Bolton's sails before he gets there, doing a pre-emptive 180 degree turn.

[ModelBreaker]

"Reform really has to align the UN behind an agenda that includes a security system which can fully meet US concerns on terrorism." He said that the drive to cut poverty and tackle social problems in developing nations would be couched in terms of the threat to the security of the West.

It sounds like a Hillary style reform--change the rhetoric to fool the rubes but stay hard to the left.