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2010-01-19 International-UN-NGOs
Dubai invites United Nations to set up headquarters
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Posted by tipper 2010-01-19 00:06|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ]  Top

#1 Yes. Absolutely. Move the UN to Dubai. We are behind you 100%. On the fast track. Here, let me pack yer bags. Get the door. [pushes him out]
Posted by Alaska Paul 2010-01-19 00:55||   2010-01-19 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 I also agree 100%. I don't see a downside. If they throw in 25% of the UNs budget so that the US doesn't have to pay the bulk I'd throw in a security council seat.
Posted by rjschwarz 2010-01-19 01:31||   2010-01-19 01:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah! Get the US out of the UN, and the UN out of the US. Go to Dubai, or Brussels, or anywhere else.
Posted by Scooter McGruder 2010-01-19 02:30||   2010-01-19 02:30|| Front Page Top

#4 As long as the UN can get their basic needs met (booze, hookers of both sexes, lots of blow), I'm sure they wouldn't have a problem with moving. I know that NYC wouldn't miss them much.
Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2010-01-19 05:47||   2010-01-19 05:47|| Front Page Top

#5 BTW, does Dubai let people in who hold Israeli passports or have an entry/exit visa from Israel? Because if they don't I'm sure that would be a feature, not a bug, to several UN member states.
Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2010-01-19 05:50||   2010-01-19 05:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Please go. We'll just withhold 25% of the budget we pay so we can have more money to clean up the mess.
Posted by DarthVader 2010-01-19 07:35||   2010-01-19 07:35|| Front Page Top

#7 I'd really hate to see 'em leave...
Posted by Raj 2010-01-19 08:04||   2010-01-19 08:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Worried all the high end restaurants will close Raj?
Posted by ed 2010-01-19 08:06||   2010-01-19 08:06|| Front Page Top

#9 The only downside to this plan is that the UN would still exist.
Posted by Spot  2010-01-19 08:14||   2010-01-19 08:14|| Front Page Top

#10 "We've got a lot of really fancy, totally empty buildings..."
Posted by mojo  2010-01-19 10:45||   2010-01-19 10:45|| Front Page Top

#11 I will help them pack.
Posted by Kelly 2010-01-19 10:50||   2010-01-19 10:50|| Front Page Top

#12 How bout that, coffee isn't even finished and I agree with a Dubai policy.
Posted by swksvolFF 2010-01-19 11:03||   2010-01-19 11:03|| Front Page Top

#13 The first question the UN relocation committee asked was, "So 9 year olds are legal, right?"
Posted by ed 2010-01-19 11:07||   2010-01-19 11:07|| Front Page Top

#14 I'll travel to New York on my own dime to help them pack, and even make a donation to help fund the move.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2010-01-19 12:21||   2010-01-19 12:21|| Front Page Top

#15  "We've got a lot of really fancy, totally empty buildings..."

A perfect match for your really fancy, totally empty people...
Posted by KBK 2010-01-19 12:21||   2010-01-19 12:21|| Front Page Top

#16 I think those empty ex-UN buildings would make excelent Low-income housing Slums.
GO and GOOD RIDDANCE.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-01-19 12:47||   2010-01-19 12:47|| Front Page Top

#17 Better idea, build in Haiti and ignore such things as Legal Age or Parking tickets.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-01-19 12:48||   2010-01-19 12:48|| Front Page Top

#18 That's evil, RJ.

I like it. :-D
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2010-01-19 13:02||   2010-01-19 13:02|| Front Page Top

#19 That's a good one RJ except that there are so many places that would do just as well.
Posted by AlanC 2010-01-19 13:20||   2010-01-19 13:20|| Front Page Top

#20 What have you got against Haitians that you would impose the U.N. on them?

As for the buildings - use them to house all the new out-of-work sex-industry-workers.
Posted by CrazyFool 2010-01-19 13:36||   2010-01-19 13:36|| Front Page Top

#21 Need help packing?
Posted by Cyber Sarge  2010-01-19 15:46||   2010-01-19 15:46|| Front Page Top

#22 Ohpleaseohpleaseohplease...
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2010-01-19 17:57||   2010-01-19 17:57|| Front Page Top

#23 What have you got against Haitians that you would impose the U.N. on them?

They've had the UN on them since the Clinton intervention in 1994. Might as well have the flag pole right in the neighborhood so they can see the fruits of their labor everyday.
Posted by Procopius2k 2010-01-19 19:28||   2010-01-19 19:28|| Front Page Top

#24 Forget Haiti for the UN. I don't think that Haiti has the requisite number of 5 star restaurants.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia  2010-01-19 19:46||   2010-01-19 19:46|| Front Page Top

#25 I'd be happy to hold the door for them.
Posted by DMFD 2010-01-19 20:25||   2010-01-19 20:25|| Front Page Top

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