Nbadan
06-08-2006, 12:23 PM
US infuriated by UN official's speech
No. 2 at United Nations criticizes US
The Associated Press (apwire)
Published 2006-06-08 00:06 (KST)
The United States demanded Wednesday that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan repudiate a speech in which his No. 2 official broke with tradition and accused the United States of undermining the United Nations.
U.S. Ambassador John Bolton called the speech by Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown a "very, very grave mistake" that could undermine Annan's own efforts to push through an ambitious agenda of reform at the world body.
"I spoke to the secretary-general this morning. I said 'I've known you since 1989 and I'm telling you this is the worst mistake by a senior U.N. official that I have seen in that entire time,'" Bolton told reporters.
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In the speech, delivered Tuesday, Malloch Brown said that the United States relies on the United Nations as a diplomatic tool but does not defend it before critics at home, a policy he called unsustainable.
He lamented that that the good works of the U.N. are largely lost because "much of the public discourse that reaches the U.S heartland has been largely abandoned to its loudest detractors such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News." The speech was delivered at a daylong conference sponsored by two think tanks, the Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation.
Link (http://english.ohmynews.com/ArticleView/article_view.asp?no=297246&rel_no=1)
Wasn't that U.S. Ambassador John Bolton was the one that said destroying the top 10 floors of the U.N. building would be a good thing? That is why he was a recess appointment and the Senate would not confirm his sorry ass?
No. 2 at United Nations criticizes US
The Associated Press (apwire)
Published 2006-06-08 00:06 (KST)
The United States demanded Wednesday that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan repudiate a speech in which his No. 2 official broke with tradition and accused the United States of undermining the United Nations.
U.S. Ambassador John Bolton called the speech by Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown a "very, very grave mistake" that could undermine Annan's own efforts to push through an ambitious agenda of reform at the world body.
"I spoke to the secretary-general this morning. I said 'I've known you since 1989 and I'm telling you this is the worst mistake by a senior U.N. official that I have seen in that entire time,'" Bolton told reporters.
snip
In the speech, delivered Tuesday, Malloch Brown said that the United States relies on the United Nations as a diplomatic tool but does not defend it before critics at home, a policy he called unsustainable.
He lamented that that the good works of the U.N. are largely lost because "much of the public discourse that reaches the U.S heartland has been largely abandoned to its loudest detractors such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News." The speech was delivered at a daylong conference sponsored by two think tanks, the Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation.
Link (http://english.ohmynews.com/ArticleView/article_view.asp?no=297246&rel_no=1)
Wasn't that U.S. Ambassador John Bolton was the one that said destroying the top 10 floors of the U.N. building would be a good thing? That is why he was a recess appointment and the Senate would not confirm his sorry ass?