Posted on 11/22/2005 10:39:40 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
John R. Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, warned Tuesday that the United States might bypass the United Nations to solve some of the world's pressing problems if the organization is unable to make management changes that will make it more effective and prevent a recurrence of corruption.
Bolton's remarks come as the Bush administration is encountering stiff resistance from poor countries to United States-backed initiatives aimed at streamlining the United Nations' management practices. The influential Group of 77 developing nations recently issued a letter sharply criticizing plans by Secretary General Kofi Annan to establish an ethics office and to review General Assembly-created programs that are more than five years old to determine whether they should be shut down.
The dispute has underscored the Bush administration's inability thus far to parlay the findings of a U.N. investigation headed by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul A. Volcker into a catalyst for institutional change. Volcker's 18-month investigation into the United Nations' management of the $64 billion oil-for-food program in Iraq uncovered evidence of corruption by U.N. diplomats, foreign dignitaries and companies from more than 60 countries.
Bolton said the General Assembly has "essentially not made progress" since President Bush and other world leaders convened a U.N. summit in September to endorse a platform of changes, including proposals to increase scrutiny of spending practices and to create a human rights council that would exclude rights abusers. He said that continued resistance to change in the organization would drive the American public away from the United Nations.
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We already did bypass the UN by going in to Iraq under our own flag.
The comPost with another non-bombshell.
I particularly like how the UN is addressing Iran spitting in their face.
LOL, Just wait until the U.N. Sends Iran a really nasty letter, or they draft a Resolution that everyone knows they can't enforce.... That'll show them Mullah's in Iran :-)
Paging Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations..... Paging Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations.....
WaPo is real swift, I seem to recall he said that a couple weeks ago.
Give them all a sizeable pay cut. Take away their expense accounts. Take away the maids, and chauffers. Cancel all memberships to country clubs & health clubs. Let them shop at Walmart and do their own laundry like the rest of us. Lock up the petty cash box. No more financial crisis!
Go Bolton! I think we all knew that he would be an excellent choice for this position.
Is he abusing underlings and hurting people's feelings up there? That rascal!
Even before that. In 1998, when the US and some European countries went to bomb Belgrade without UN permission. Clinton knew the Russians would block any resolution against Belgrade.
Oh yeah...Why did we bomb Belgrade? I forgot!
There is a large percentage of the American public that doesn't want the U.N. any longer, so I ask, how much more of the American public is needed to drive the U.N. out and close it's doors?
I'm truly surprised how little coverage that the hundreds of rapes committed by UN "Peace Keeping" troops on teenage girls in Africa has gotten.
The United States should end all funding to this quasi-criminal organization, and start a new Organization of only Free Democratic Nations.
We've gone past the trial balloon stage. Now the tom-toms are clearly saying, "We just might skip having to deal with you corrupt, ineffective wussies!"
More power to you, John!
HF
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