Posted on 06/07/2006 11:35:13 AM PDT by prairiebreeze
US Ambassador John Bolton strongly rebuked remarks by a senior UN official criticizing Washington's stance on key UN issues, demanding that they be repudiated to avoid doing serious damage to the world body.
In a speech delivered Tuesday at a New York conference on global leadership, UN Deputy Secretary General Mark Malloch Brown slammed what he called the prevailing US "practice of seeking to use the UN almost by stealth as a diplomatic tool while failing to stand up for it against its domestic critics."
"To acknowledge an America reliant on international institutions is not perceived to be good politics at home," he added.
In a furious reaction, Bolton called the speech by UN chief Kofi Annnan's deputy a "very grave mistake."
"We are in the process of an enormous effort to achieve substantial reform at the United Nations," he said. "To have the deputy secretary general criticize the United States in such a manner can only do great harm to the United nations.
"Even though the target of the speech was the United States, the victim, I fear, will be the United Nations," he added. "Even worse was the condescending and patronizing tone about the American people. This was a criticism of the American people not the American government by an international civil servant."
The US envoy to the UN said the only way "to mitigate the damage to the United Nations" was for Annan to "personally and publicly repudiate this speech at the earliest possible opportunity."
"Otherwise I fear the consequences not just for the reform effort but for the organization," he added.
The world body faces possible financial gridlock at the end of the month, when a 950-million dollar spending cap on a two-year 3.798 billion-dollar (3.2 billion-euro) UN budget agreed last December expires, if wealthy and developing countries fail to reach agreement on a package of management reforms proposed by Annan.
Washington has threatened to withdraw funding if the reforms are not adopted by then, and EU countries have said they will have to take another look at their contributions.
The US envoy to the UN said the only way "to mitigate the damage to the United Nations" was for Annan to "personally and publicly repudiate this speech at the earliest possible opportunity."
Americans are waiting for your apology, Kofi.
{{{crickets}}}
John Bolton ping
Awesome Awesome Awesome. Thanks for the post.
John Bolton for President in '08!!!!
John Bolton is a breath of fresh air at the UN. He says what needs to be said, too bad the UN-Annan flunkies have no ears.
Another thread on the topic (I did search before posting :^)) is here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645058/posts
HOWEVER, that article does not include Bolton's demand that Kofi "personally and publicly repudiate this speech at the earliest possible opportunity."
I love Bolton, but his actions to reform the UN are just putting off what needs to be done, and that is disband the UN and arrest, investigate, and prosecute it's leaders for corruption and crimes against humanity.
and
US out of the UN
I support Dubya for lots of stuff...but first and foremost is the appointment of John Bolton.
I'd been hearing about this story and it's good to hear Bolton standing up for us!
I know you didn't direct your post to me, but frankly IMO, it just isn't going to happen. Not that you aren't correct of course.
Norm Coleman was all over the OFF scandal...for a while. Anymore, Coleman had gone dark on the story.
But then, I've also read that the OFF scandal ran so deep in directions that if the world knew who all was really involved, it would rock the planet to it's absolute core. (Not meaning to implicate Coleman here.)
God bless John Bolton. A great American!!
Well then let it rock. I don't care if the entire RNC was involved, it was a crime of such horrific proportions it needs to be exposed and dealt with.
Again, I'm not disagreeing just opining that it won't be.
There was a story about ties to a certain Vatican priest several months back. All I'm saying is that lots of powerful and influencial people have an interest in keeping the lid on at least certain aspects of the story. Really major housecleaning would....jeopardize that interest.
Mark Malloch-Brown rents a large home in Westchester County New York (30-45 minutes north of New York City) from George Soros. Hint, hint.
He rents his house from Soros?
Hmmmmmmm.....veeeery interestink!
I agree. But think about what we gor when Halfbright was there. She would have agreed with the euro-idiot.
Easy solution is to declare him persona non grata and ship him home ASAP.
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