British Foreign Secretary urges US Secretary of State to rein in Bolton

[billyskank]

The British government is mounting a huge diplomatic effort this weekend to prevent the biggest-ever summit of world leaders, designed to tackle poverty and overhaul the United Nations, ending in chaos.

The Guardian has learned that Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, has made a personal plea to his American counterpart, Condoleezza Rice, for the US to withdraw opposition to plans for wholesale reform of the UN. He has asked Ms Rice to rein in John Bolton, the US ambassador to the world body.

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Mr Bolton has thrown the reform negotiations into disarray by demanding a catalogue of late changes to a 40-page draft document which is due to go before the summit in New York on Wednesday.

Mr Bolton, one of the US administration hawks, became ambassador last month only after a long confrontation with the US senate, mainly caused by his ideological dislike of the UN.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1566848,00.html

Yeah fucking fat chance. :eyes:

[AtomicKitten]

1. Rein him in?

I think he should be neutered and muzzled.

[tjwmason]

2. Now we'll see Blair's point proved.

He's constantly asserting that we need to kow-tow to the U.S. because that way we get "influence".

Now I'm sure that we're going to see how much change that "influence" will make to U.S. policy.

I'm sure that we'll all be making profuse apologies to Blair, once Bolton becomes a convinced internationalist thanks to this appeal.

:sarcasm: