UN: ‘Send In The Clowns
by James Zumwalt
09/28/2009
Is Comrade Hor Nam Hong(VIETNAMESE ) confessing that Cambodia is in serious
economic trouble? while Cambodia remains occupied by Vietnam in violation of
this UN resolutions:
Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by vote
of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese forces
from Cambodia. President Reagan's address to the 43d Session of the United
Nations General Assembly in New York, New York . September 26, 1988.
"Mr. Secretary-General, there are new hopes for Cambodia, a nation whose
freedom and independence we seek just as avidly as we sought the freedom and
independence of Afghanistan. We urge the rapid removal of all Vietnamese troops
...."
FAKE Cambodia's Deputy Prime Minister Hor Namhong(VIETNAMESE ) addresses the
64th session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations
headquarters Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
Cambodia calls for successful conclusion of trade talks
Comrade Hor Nam Hong addresses the 64th UN General Assembly ... Interesting
accent Comrade!
Part 1
Part 2
A REMINDER TO THE UN :
President Reagan's address to the 43d Session of the United Nations General
Assembly in New York, New York . September 26, 1988.
"Mr. Secretary-General, there are new hopes for Cambodia, a nation whose
freedom and independence we seek just as avidly as we sought the freedom and
independence of Afghanistan. We urge the rapid removal of all Vietnamese troops
...."
"Prime Minister Pham Van Dong called on me and, in the presence of Premier Chou
En-lai, swore in the name of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam that the latter
would always respect the land frontiers as well as all islands belonging to the
"Kingdom of Cambodia" March 1970 by Sihanouk . Wilfred Burchett book "The China
Cambodia Vietnam triangle " P-176-177
UN Passes Strong Resolution on Cambodia Human Rights Abuses
Feb. 27, 1982 : UN Commission on Human Rights meeting in Geneva adopted a
resolution condemning Vietnam’s occupation of Cambodia as a violation of
Cambodian human rights. The vote was 28 in favor, 8 against, and 5 abstentions.
5. Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by
vote of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese
forces from Cambodia.
As of today,Cambodia is still occupied by the Vietnamese troops despite the
call from the US president to Vietnam to cease her occupation of Cambodia since
1988.
Cambodia needs Independence from Vietnam and the Vietnamese invaders.
Vietnam must cease her occupation of Cambodia at once
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On Saturday 26 September, Comrade Hor Nam Hong addresses the 64th UN General
Assembly. It's interesting to hear the comrade's accent. Anybody can guess
where he picked up this accent from?
Listening to speeches given before the UN General Assembly last week by Libya’s
Muammar Gaddafi, Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, one is
reminded of songwriter Stephen Sondheim’s 1973 hit “Send in the Clowns.” As
Sondheim explained about his song, its title referred not to circus clowns but,
rather, to “fools.” It is an appropriate context as well for the appearance
made by these three leaders at the UN. Unfortunately, listening to President
Obama’s speech did little to dispel the song title’s applicability to him too.
With dictator Gaddafi, kakistocrat Ahmadinejad and aspiring dictator Chavez, UN
delegates were subjected to hours of rambling babble. It must be a trait of
ruthless leaders -- they believe the power they have misappropriated from their
own people empowers them to submit others to endless diatribes by which they
seek to impart their myopic world view.
On Wednesday, Colonel Gaddafi made his first UN appearance, being introduced,
as is his wont, as “the king of kings.” He ranted for over an hour and a half,
wearing out two translators attempting to make as much sense as possible out of
what was being said. His ramblings included a claim US drug companies invented
the swine flu to create a market for their vaccines, to demands for
investigations into all the wars and assassinations that have occurred since
the UN’s founding. Incredulously, he went on to further suggest a Talabanized
Afghanistan religious state poses no more of a threat than that posed by
another religious state -- the Vatican.
A few hours later, Ahmadinejad spoke, making his fifth appearance before the UN
and his first since the June 12th election riots over his theft of the
electorate’s vote. He detonated a verbal grenade days before repeating his
statement that the Holocaust was a lie. With duplicitous grandeur, Ahmadinejad
announced out of one side of his mouth he was proud his statement had enraged
the West and out of the other si
At the UN, Ahmadinejad’s diatribe included rants about Jewish domination in the
world and about Iran going through “a glorious and fully democratic election”
in which voters had “entrusted me once more with a large majority,” apparently
opting to ignore the rioting that took place just days before his departure for
the UN. As Ahmadinejad spewed out hatred, many foreign diplomats walked out in
protest. Unfazed by the sight of a near empty chamber, Ahmadinejad continued.
On Thursday, Chavez took center stage. His ramblings took him from praising
the Bolivarian revolution which he started in Venezuela, to vocalizing a
hair-brained idea about creating “an international city with its own
sovereignty, with its own strength and morality to represent all nations of the
world,” to noting President Obama’s presence at the UN replaced the “smell of
sulfur” (a reference to his 2006 comment at the UN about President Bush being
the devil) with the “smell of hope” (just what does hope smell like?), to
denouncing capitalism as a chief cause of global climate changes. The almost
hour long speech also urged Obama to “come over to the socialist side.” (which,
at this point, would not be a long walk).
President Obama gave his first speech to the UN General Assembly, speaking just
before Gaddafi, delivering a challenge that the body faces irrelevance if it is
unable effectively to act against outlaw states. He was well received by the
assembled, delivering a 37 minute speech to a packed chamber.
Distancing himself from the previous US administration’s unilateral approach to
tackling international problems, Obama acknowledged the world has changed and
such problems now must be resolved within the context of a “new era of
engagement…Those who used to chastise America for acting alone in the world
cannot now stand by and wait for America to solve the world’s problems alone.”
Obama’s speech was uplifting for many listeners. But, it was the above remarks
of the speakers who followed Obama to the podium -- remarks bordering on the
absurd -- that should give rational people pause to ask if engagement with such
irrational leaders is, in itself, rational.
On Thursday, for the first time since the UN’s founding, a US president chaired
the UN Security Council. In a well-planned move, the first order of business
for Obama was to call for a vote on a resolution aimed at strengthening the
Non-Proliferation Treaty by nations with nuclear weapons taking on the
responsibility to move toward disarmament and those without to forsake them.
Much like Iran’s recent presidential election, the outcome was known before the
first vote was cast. Obama had obtained assurances ahead of time from all 15
Security Council members they would support the kumbaya resolution.
The Security Council vote was a no-brainer, as meaningless as it was easy. But
Obama’s challenge for UN members to cooperate or face irrelevance had already
fallen on deaf ears. While one Security Council member, Russia, had hinted at
support for harsher sanctions against Iran, another, China, indicated it would
not -- a decision undoubtedly influenced by its strong trade relationship with
Tehran. A further indication Chinese cooperation would not be forthcoming came
even before the Security Council vote, after US and Indian companies had
stopped selling gasoline to Iran only to have China (and Venezuela) pick up the
slack -- today meeting a third of Tehran’s daily gasoline requirements. Such
lack of cooperation will absolutely remove any motivation for Iran to stop its
uranium enrichment program -- a program now known to involve a second major
facility beyond the one at Natanz.
Chavez did make one irrefutable point in his speech. Criticizing UN inaction
over the years, he said, “This UN does not work.” It is a lesson our young,
inexperienced president will learn as his efforts to seek engagement with our
enemies and cooperation from our UN counterparts fails miserably. He will
learn it is dangerous to tether US security to UN action. Perhaps then the
American people will come to the same realization about the Obama
Administration’s leadership that Sondheim does towards the end of his song.
The final demand to “Send in the clowns” is met just as quickly with the stark
realization, “Don’t bother they’re here.”
James Zumwalt, a Marine veteran of the Vietnam and Gulf wars who writes often
on national security and defense issues, is the author of "Bare Feet, Iron
Will: Stories from the Other Side of Vietnam's Battlefields" (found at:
www.jgzumwalt.com).
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