Via JoNova;
Essentially, the new Australian government ‘s message to the UN is: we are reducing CO2, but we’re not giving you a cent. Furthermore, if the science becomes muddier, we might drop it. We don’t think this UN meeting is remotely important and we have better things to do. And when it comes to wealth transfer through the UN the answer is No. Thank. You.
h/t Adrian, Kevin B.
Iran’s representative will replace Norwegian diplomat Knut Langeland. The position’s duties include relaying information and reports on disarmament and armament activities between the committee and the General Assembly.
H/t: Chris
Hmmmm…. Stephen Harper won’t address the UN General Assembly when it gathers in New York this week, just as he didn’t address it last year or the year before.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon denied on Monday there is any bias in the UN against Israel.
h/t Alex
When even the Guardian objects…
In 1989 – four months after Libya bombed Pan Am flight 103, killing 270 people from 21 countries – Ziegler launched the annual Muammar Qaddafi Human Rights Prize in Tripoli, boasting it was the “Anti-Nobel prize of the third world”. Winners have included Fidel Castro, Louis Farrakhan, and a leader of a Ba’ath party women’s organisation in Saddam’s Iraq. In 2002, the recipients included the convicted French Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy, and Ziegler himself.
In 1986, Ziegler acted as an adviser to the Ethiopian dictator Mengistu, helping draft his one-party constitution. In 1993, Le Monde reported on “Jean Ziegler’s trip to visit Saddam Hussein and Kim Il-sung.”
Ziegler proclaimed “total support for the Cuban revolution” shortly after Fidel Castro had imprisoned many journalists. While visiting Cuba as a UN official he refused to meet Cuban dissidents but lavished praise on Castro.
In 2002, he praised the Zimbabwean dictator, saying, “Mugabe has history and morality with him.”
Jean Ziegler has been elected to the advisory committee of the
UN Human Rights Council.
UN honours mass murdering Communist.
In a scathing and unprecedented attack on a UN-accredited NGO, top UN Human Rights Council official Richard Falk is publicly calling on the 47-nation body to investigate and potentially expel a watchdog organization after it mobilized world leaders — including his own boss, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon — to condemn his comments blaming the Boston Marathon bombings on “the American global domination project” and “Tel Aviv.”
Of course! Iran will chair the United Nations’ most important disarmament negotiating forum during the panel’s May session…
Canada slammed a top United Nations official today for suggesting the Boston Marathon attacks were the result of the United States “global domination project” and Washington’s policy on Israel.
Richard Falk, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the
Palestinian territories, made the controversial remarks in an April
21 commentary published in Foreign Policy Journal.
Falk wrote “the American global domination project is bound to
generate all kinds of resistance in the post-colonial world.”
“As long as Tel Aviv has the compliant ear of the American political establishment, those who wish for peace and justice in the world should not rest easy.”
Related: CBC corrects reporter over use of word “attack” in Israel story
If so, why?
UN Adds Sudan’s Genocidal Islamist Warlord To Its Human Rights Council…
If so, why?
It’s Official: Genocidal Sudan Running Uncontested for U.N. Human Rights Council Seat