South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon will become the eighth U.N. secretary-general on January 1st. Best case scenario is that he is exactly the vegetable that he seems. Worst case scenario is that the U.S. has some sort of hold over him, seeing as the American influence over South Korea is still substantial. Even worse, [...]
Continue Reading October 14th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
It’s hard not to be impressed by Hugo Chavez’s antics in the UN General Assembly this past week. While he didn’t levy the most effective criticism, and while direct criticism of Bush is always running the risk of deflecting deeper and more systematic criticism of the US, the quip was nevertheless hilarious and there is [...]
Continue Reading September 23rd, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Predictably, the US spearheaded the effort that finally crippled the UN small arms conference.
A U.N. meeting meant to expand a five-year-old crackdown on the illicit global trade in small arms ended in chaos on Friday as delegates ran out of time without reaching agreement on a plan for future action.
“There was a total meltdown at [...]
Continue Reading July 8th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
In a rare and stunningly honest display of criticism of a member state UN Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown (a Briton no less) blasted the US over “stealth diplomacy.” Or more precisely the practise of relying on the world body when it suits their whims, and when you can whip up a good war or [...]
Continue Reading June 8th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Birds of feather …
HRW - Rice Must Explain Repressive UN Ban on LGBT Rights Groups - (Washington, D.C., January 25, 2006) In a reversal of policy, the United States on Monday backed an Iranian initiative to deny United Nations consultative status to organizations working to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) [...]
Continue Reading January 30th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Little Johnny Bolton is trying to blackmail the UN.
WaPo - Bolton Admonishes U.N. - In an effort to prod states into action, Bolton proposed delaying the passage of the United Nations’ $3.6 billion 2006-07 budget until the United States-backed reforms have been adopted. He suggested the General Assembly could pass a temporary budget to finance [...]
Continue Reading November 23rd, 2005 Björn Hallberg
And I thought I’d seen it all …
NYT - The General Assembly adopted a resolution on Tuesday to establish an annual day to commemorate victims of the Holocaust, reject denials that the genocide occurred and urge countries to educate their citizens about the World War II killings.
The resolution also commends countries that preserve Holocaust sites [...]
Continue Reading November 2nd, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Agonist reports that U.S. Ambassador John Bolton blocked U.N. envoy Juan Mendez, scheduled to deliver his report on the situation in Sudan. I guess Bolton either thought his time was too valuable or that he could gather better intelligence from his office because he claimed that “the council had to act against atrocities and not [...]
Continue Reading October 13th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
(Agonist) He damn well should.
In an interview to be brodcast on Friday, former US secretary of state Colin Powell says his United Nations speech making the case for the US-led war on Iraq was “a blot” on his record.
Mr Powell has also said that he had “never seen evidence to suggest” a connection between the [...]
Continue Reading September 9th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
At least it looks like some are making an effort to oppose the US attempt att hijacking the upcoming summit.
Sweden, which is to chair a United Nations summit on sweeping reform of the world body in September, on Friday called a US proposal to scrap ambitious goals to reduce world poverty “not acceptable”.
As is evident [...]
Continue Reading August 28th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
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