(UN) Summit failure blamed on US (The Observer)

[Up2Late]

(But, but, but, Freedom is on the march, Right?)

Summit failure blamed on US

Mark Townsend in New York
Sunday September 18, 2005
The Observer

The failure of last week's United Nations summit to deliver an agreement designed to prevent terrorists acquiring 'weapons of mass destruction' was sabotaged by the US, senior diplomats have told The Observer.

Officials involved in the negotiations have confirmed that the Bush administration's refusal to countenance any form of disarmament blocked attempts to push measures that would prevent regimes seeking to develop a nuclear capability. It contradicts reports last week that the US had in fact been furious that plans to crack down on nuclear proliferation were stripped out of the final UN document.

However, diplomats speaking on condition of anonymity have revealed it was in fact President Bush who scuppered what the UN believed was a crucial move in helping make the world safer from the risk of terrorists obtaining a nuclear threat.

Sources reveal that the move has heightened further tensions between the Americans and furious UN officials who believe the issue remains the greatest threat to world peace. Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the UN, told world leaders that the decision to drop all references in the final UN text to disarmament was 'inexcusable', saying that 'weapons of mass destruction pose a grave danger to us all'.

<http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1572824,00.html?gusrc=rss>
(more at link above)

[DELUSIONAL]

1. After seeing what Bolton did to the agreement that

a UN had been working on for this conference -- I'd say it was wrecked as soon as the members saw Bolton's revisions.

In some ways bushie is a dumb ass -- but he is an idiot savant when it comes to screwing up functioning organizations.

[TheStates]

2. The real terrorist revealed.....Dick Cheney...

And his terrorist friends selling weapons....proliferating them everywhere. It's time for the U.N. to leave America as its clearly not welcomed here, and clearly is doing no good with the crooks in charge of the USA.

[ninkasi]

3. My daughter's SO

is Canadian. I'm trying to copy his accent, in case I am ever able to travel overseas. I wish they would marry, only so that she might be able to someday claim Canadian citizenship. Otherwise, they have been together several years, are buying a home together, so it doesn't matter. Hmm...I wonder if mothers-in-law can settle in Canada easily?

[Spazito]

4. It is all well and good to blame it on the US but....

until the UN stands up and tells the US it is but ONE country among many and does NOT control the agenda, the UN must look into it's own mirror to see who is really at fault.

There was NO ONE unaware, within the UN and outside of it, that the US agenda, from the beginning, was to sabotage this summit and that was even further confirmed by the recess appointment of Bolton. For the UN to cry foul now is to negate their 'raison d'etre', imo.

BTW, I am a big supporter of the UN as it could and should be but am a severe critic of it as it currently exists.

[Brother Buzz]

5. This takes "Miserable failure" to new heights....

"it was in fact President Bush who scuppered what the UN believed was a crucial move in helping make the world safer from the risk of terrorists obtaining a nuclear threat."...and of course, with a little help from his enablers - Bolten et al.

[Up2Late]

6. kick n/t

:kick:

[bigbrother05]

7. Creative Chaos n/t

[Javaman]

8. Bolton = Nikita Kruschev's shoe.

[jmatthan]

9. Until the UN is MOVED

from the US, it will remain the "second most miserable failure" in the world!

http://MoveTheUN.blogspot.com

Google "miserable failure" to see who is FIRST!