Kandeh K. Yumkella (Sierra Leone), Director General, UNIDO.
Posted on 05/28/2013 4:16:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Six months after a U.S. foreign policy advocacy group urged a United Nations agency to stop cooperating with the Iranian regime, the agency’s members have appointed Tehran to head a body overseeing its budget and work program for the year ahead.
Meeting in Vienna, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) last week named Iran to succeed Austria as chairman of its Program and Budget Committee. The step was taken “by acclamation,” meaning no member state objected or called for a vote.
The post will be held by Ali-Asghar Soltanieh, Iran’s representative to international organizations based in Vienna. Those organizations include with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which for years has been tracking and reporting on Iran’s controversial nuclear program. …
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Cancel that check we write to the UN every year.
Kandeh K. Yumkella (Sierra Leone), Director General, UNIDO.
But...but....we are always told by the Free Traders and Globalists that the UN is good....because we don’t want to be isolationist and protectionist....
Iran cannot even refine its own oil....
Looks like we have Iran, the UN and Obama against America! Interesting how he aspires to chair the UN, and while claiming to represent America and freedom. How is he going to eliminate the Iranian threat?
Worst part? Obama wants to cede American sovereignty to the UN!
Thanks Olog-hai.
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