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International-UN-NGOs
Lighting Bolton to UN: US Could Bypass If Reforms Don't Kick In
2005-11-23
John R. Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, warned Tuesday that the United States might bypass the United Nations to solve some of the world's pressing problems if the organization is unable to make management changes that will make it more effective and prevent a recurrence of corruption.

Bolton's remarks come as the Bush administration is encountering stiff resistance from poor countries to United States-backed initiatives aimed at streamlining the United Nations' management practices. The influential Group of 77 developing nations recently issued a letter sharply criticizing plans by Secretary General Kofi Annan to establish an ethics office and to review General Assembly-created programs that are more than five years old to determine whether they should be shut down.
They sense a disturbance in the Force...


Posted by:Captain America

#8  John Bolton :

Excederin Headache #327
Posted by: BigEd   2005-11-23 16:29  

#7  Get the Japanese on board with the no funding thing.

They already are.
Posted by: phil_b   2005-11-23 16:13  

#6  I'd pay for the gas accelerants. I can spare it for something as worthy as this.
Posted by: .com   2005-11-23 11:37  

#5  I'm all for burning down the UN with all the UN asshats inside (Bolton would be outside with the match).
Posted by: mmurray821   2005-11-23 11:28  

#4  Get the Japanese on board with the no funding thing.
Posted by: mojo   2005-11-23 10:27  

#3  Heard a bit of a news item on Fox that if the UN doesn't get moving on reforms the US will start witholding funding.
Bout danm time!
Posted by: raptor   2005-11-23 05:45  

#2  Sharply criticizing plans for an ethics office and review of GA-created programs? Gosh, why would they object, much less sharply criticize? Clean programs that are effective and honest are good, right?

Lol.

Hey look! There's a dead rat on the kitchen floor!
Posted by: .com   2005-11-23 00:46  

#1  Bolton's remarks come as the Bush administration is encountering stiff resistance from poor countries to United States-backed initiatives aimed at streamlining the United Nations' management practices.

"Whaddya mean - 'no more skimming'?"
Posted by: Pappy   2005-11-23 00:38  

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