Tuesday - July 11, 2006

Useless Numbnuts

Someone please tell me exactly what the UN has done for anything or anyone in the last sixty years that couldn’t have been accomplished just as easily with normal diplomacy between countries. The building on Turtle Bay in New York is a money pit and a snake pit, all rolled into one. The sooner the US gets out of the UN and kicks the buggers out of the country, the better off we’ll be.

_{Michael Ramirez - Investors Business Daily}

UN Delays Vote On Possible North Korea Sanctions
—_{(CBC NEWS - AP) - Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:52:08 EDT}

The UN Security Council’s five permanent members and Japan agreed Monday to postpone a vote on possible sanctions against North Korea for its missile test that rattled the region last week. Jean-Marc de La Sabliere, France’s ambassador to the UN and the current council president, said there would be no vote Monday. Wang Guangya, China’s UN ambassador, said council members have agreed to continue discussions on the Tokyo-sponsored resolution.

Guangya told reporters after a meeting with envoys from Russia, the United States, Britain, France and Japan that the resolution would have to be altered for the council to approve it. “If they wish to have a resolution, they should have a modified one, not this one,” he said. China’s consideration of any resolution was considered significant, since Wang had been pressing for a weaker Security Council statement, which would not be legally binding.

U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said Washington would look at any Chinese suggestions for changes, and the council would re-evaluate “on a daily basis” whether to proceed with a vote. The Kyodo News agency, citing unidentified Japanese officials, reported that Japan and the United States were seeking a renewed moratorium by North Korea on missile testing, and its unconditional return to six-party talks on its nuclear program, in exchange for withholding sanctions.

- More bilgewater from the UN here ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/11/2006 at 09:18 AM   
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