Posted on 08/02/2006 7:22:29 PM PDT by pissant
WASHINGTON U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown may want to stick to reforming his own office and stop criticizing member states, a State Department spokesman said Wednesday.
Malloch Brown was quoted in a British newspaper Wednesday suggesting that he does not think that Hezbollah, the Syrian- and Iranian-backed group currently fighting Israeli Defense Forces, is a terrorist organization.
"It's not helpful to couch this war in the language of international terrorism. Hezbollah employs terrorist tactics; it is an organization, however, whose roots historically are completely separate and different from Al Qaeda," he said, according to a transcript of an interview.
"I have to say that some of his comments, as reported today, are really misguided and misplaced. And we are seeing a troubling pattern of a high official of the U.N. who seems to be making it his business to criticize member states and, frankly, with misplaced and misguided criticisms. So I really don't understand the origin of these comments," said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.
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There were a few on this thread last night looking for a Haditha Ping list:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676168/posts
Marine Names Murtha in Defamation Suit
Oops, see you were already pinged there.
I wuzz there. :o)
That was a late night :)
Speakin of late nights, I gotta scoot. Catch you soon.
Night!
Whatta maroon!
night!
Are you related to Suzy quzy?
No...I am Suzy Quzy.
Well, g'night to boatchya!
Nope not related, I don't think, but she's got a cool screen name! ;o)
From State Department budget request, Cost to the United States For the United Nations for FY 2007 as determined by looking for UN or United Nations or U.N. in the budget request item in FY 2007 Congressional Budget Justification for Foreign Operations and in FY 2007 International Affairs (Function 150) Budget Request Account Tables; also USAID and adding things up.
Budget Request Item | $ thousands |
International Panel on Climate Change/UN Framework Convention on Climate Change | 5,952 |
UN Children's Fund | 124,000 |
UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF) 3,797 + 500 | 4,297 |
UN Development Fund for Women | 1,984 |
UN Development Program | 108,128 |
UN Environment Program | 10,912 |
UN Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights | 1,488 |
UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture | 6,944 |
UNIFEM Trust Fund | 992 |
United Nations Crime Center | 496 |
United Nations - Regular Budget | 422,761 |
United Nations - War Crimes Tribunals | 33,201 |
United Nations - Capital Master Plan | 22,110 |
United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organization | 69,599 |
U.N. Disengagement Observer Force on the Golan Heights (UNDOF) | 11,241 |
U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) | 24,228 |
U.N. Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) | 5,000 |
U.N. Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) | 50,000 |
U.N. Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) | 9,416 |
War Crimes Tribunal - Yugoslavia (UNICTY) | 25,075 |
War Crimes Tribunal - Rwanda (UNICTR) | 19,228 |
U.N. Operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) | 152,745 |
U.N. Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) | 39,296 |
U.N. Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) | 150,000 |
U.N. Mission in Sudan | 441,873 |
Total | 1,740,966 |
The high price of the U.N. Mission in Sudan (more than United Nations Regular Budget) is not MY error. In 2006, it was called Sudan/Darfur and budgeted at $250 Millions.
Note: Also, for Lebanon the budget requests $36 million from the Economic Support Fund, $1 million from International Military Education and Training, and $4.8 million from Foreign Military Financing in addition to the $24 million U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) shown above.
Does anyone know why The State Department gives Russia $62 Million (SIXTY MILLION DOLLARS?)? Is that supposed to make Putin nice? If it's going to Putin, why isn't it budgeted to Putin?
Before. You know that.
lol
Thanks alot, just try to ruin my day, will ya? Zoinks
Now wait a minute. There are lots of good people - janitors, secretaries, mailboys, etc in there.
At a minimum, they need to be booted out of this country and stripped of all US funding. Let them go to belgium and spew their nonsense.
Oh, well then we send them a notice not to go to work that day, the way allegedly the Jews were warned not to go to work on 9/11 at the twin towers per the insane Islamic conspiracy theorists.
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