UN Votes Zimbabwe to head economic progress committee

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/05/12/un.zimbabwe.ap/index.html

:lol

Yep, I can't think of a better country to lead a committee like that than one with an inflation rate of 2,000% (not a typo - two thousand percent).

What a joke.

[BradLohaus]

I'm sure that this committee will find that "economic progress" means taking more of our wealth.

[LaMarcus Bryant]

new-new-new-new-new world order

[smeagol]

I'm no saying I agree, but the UN has had countries with lower inflation rate running the economic progress committee and that has not been very successfull either

[Extra Stout]

Economic progress does not come because of UN committees.

[Extra Stout]

The main purpose of the UN is to give the little pissant countries of the world the illusion that the major powers care what they have to say, so that they will try to mediate their own disputes rather than starting wars. Occasionally, it works.

So if some pointless backward despot-run country like Zimbabwe runs a committee, it doesn't really matter.

[xrayzebra]

United Nations is a joke. Original intent of
the UN was lost years ago.