Not this again.
The UN is just pissed because the US was instrumental in exposing
corruption at their highest levels and showing how Annan is as bent as
any African dictator. The French contingent are simply doing their
regular trick of getting up everyones backside. They never miss an
opportunity to have a dig at the US...unless the US are helping them out.
I wonder:
1. How does this fall under the UN mandate?
*** START ***
The Purposes of the United Nations are:
1. To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to
take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of
threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or
other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and
in conformity with the principles of justice and international law,
adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which
might lead to a breach of the peace;
2. To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for
the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to
take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;
3. To achieve international co-operation in solving international
problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character,
and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for
fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex,
language, or religion; and
4. To be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the
attainment of these common ends.
*** END ***
2. Doesn't the UN think they could be spending this time better off
elsewhere in the world?
Iain.
