Bolton Calls on Annan to Reject Aide's Remarks

NY Times ^ | June 7, 2006 | WARREN HOGE

[neverdem]

UNITED NATIONS, June 7 — John R. Bolton, the American ambassador to the United Nations, called on Secretary General Kofi Annan today to repudiate "personally and publicly" critical remarks his top official made about the United States, but Mr. Annan turned aside the challenge.

Calling the matter "very, very grave," Mr. Bolton said he made the demand in a morning phone call in which he told the secretary general, "I've known you since 1989, and I'm telling you this is the worst mistake by a senior U.N. official that I have seen in that entire time."

The official, Mark Malloch Brown, the deputy secretary general, assailed the United States in a speech Tuesday for withholding support from the United Nations, encouraging its harshest detractors and undermining an institution he said Washington needed more than it would admit.

"The prevailing practice of seeking to use the U.N. almost by stealth as a diplomatic tool while failing to stand up for it against its domestic critics is simply not sustainable," Mr. Malloch Brown said. "You will lose the U.N. one way or another."

Responding to Mr. Bolton today, Mr. Annan's spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, said: "The secretary general stands by the deputy secretary general and agrees with the thrust of the speech. This is not a criticism of the United States, it is call for greater U.S. involvement in the U.N."

The showdown was provoked when Mr. Malloch Brown said in his speech that although the United States was constructively engaged with the United Nations in many areas, the American public was shielded from knowledge of it by Washington's tolerance of what he...

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"Much of the public discourse that reaches the U.S. heartland has been largely abandoned to its loudest detractors such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News," Mr. Malloch Brown said.

[kromike]

Why, I'll be holding MY breath waiting...

/s

[neverdem]

The UN’s war on guns

[RedStateRocker]

Finally, an ambassador with some cajones. I like Bolton more and more.
Yes, we CAN make use of the UN, dislike it and particularly having it on U.S. soil as I may I am sure we get a good deal of intel that way. And there are somethings where a coalition is better than even overwhelming force (such as when you don't want to just kill everything that moves).
As long as it is clear that the rest of the countries are, collectively, our bitch.

[Mikey_1962]

I agree. Tell these small minded morons where to go.

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

Good I hope we loose the UN soon. Then they can find another place to call home and corrupt. We can tun that building into high grade Condos.

[Shermy]

Why not read Brown's comments in full. Enjoy!

UN needs u.s., u.s. needs un to face challenges -- HIV/AIDS, Sudan -- that defy national solutions, says Deputy Secretary-General in new york address

[Beagle8U]

"As long as it is clear that the rest of the countries are, collectively, our bitch."

LOL..I could make a great "tag-line" out of that. ie..

We'll stay in the UN, As long as it is clear that the rest of the countries are, collectively, our bitch.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the link.

[FreedomNeocon]

[Rummyfan]

"The prevailing practice of seeking to use the U.N. almost by stealth as a diplomatic tool while failing to stand up for it against its domestic critics is simply not sustainable," Mr. Malloch Brown said. "You will lose the U.N. one way or another."

If only we would lose this corrupt, venal, criminal, vice-ridden useless debating society that serves no purpose other than enriching the career bureaucrats who run it! P*sses me off no end that even one cent of my tax money goes to this institution.

[plain talk]

What the U.S. should put its money where its mouth is and stop funding the U.N. until that Deputy is removed from office. Just shut down the funding.

[plain talk]

Take the issue of human rights.

When Eleanor Roosevelt took the podium at the UN to argue passionately for the elaboration of a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the world responded. Today, when the human rights machinery was renewed with the formation of a Human Rights Council to replace the discredited Commission on Human Rights, and the US chose to stay on the sidelines, the loss was everybody’s ...

This idiot wishes to lecture the US on human rights?! LOL!!