Kofi Annan's "new world compact".Even when measured by the dismal standards that apply to UN bureaucrats, the career of Kofi Annan Kofi Atta Annan (born April 8, 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1 1997 to January 1 2007, serving two five-year terms. He was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001. is remarkably cluttered with scandal and utterly barren of worthwhile achievements. As head of the UN's peacekeeping department 11 years ago, Annan played a role in facilitating the Rwandan genocide The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass killing of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutu sympathizers in Rwanda and was the largest atrocity during the Rwandan Civil War. . On his watch as secretary-general, the Iraq "Oil-for-Food" scandal blossomed into what may be the largest case of fraud in history. Yet Annan still regards himself as the world's moral tutor--a pose he strikes in his essay '"In Larger Freedom': Decision Time at the UN," in the May-June issue of Foreign Affairs foreign affairs pl.n. Affairs concerning international relations and national interests in foreign countries. . In the article, published by the flagship journal of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an influential and independent, nonpartisan foreign policy membership organization founded in 1921 and based at 58 East 68th Street (corner Park Avenue) in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C. , Annan described his plans to convene a September summit of world leaders The Summit of World Leaders is a meeting of current and former heads of states and other international dignitaries, sponsored by the Interational and Interreligious Federation for World Peace, an organ of the Unification Movement founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. "to strengthen our collective security, lay[??] down a truly global strategy for development [that is, foreign aid], advance the cause of human rights and democracy in all nations, and put in place new mechanisms to ensure that these commitments are translated into action." Annan maintains that in dealing with terrorism, environmental issues, transnational organized crime "Transnational Organized Crime" ("Transnational Crime"), is criminal activity, orgainised across national borders. It has been likened to a cancer, spreading across the world. , and similar threats, "we must make use of the unique normative strength, global reach, and convening power of the UN." Observing that actual and potential threats to world peace sometimes require military action, he insists that the UN Security Council "is fully empowered by the UN Charter to deal with such threats." "Accountability--of states to their citizens, of states to one another, of international institutions to their members, and of this present generation to future ones--is essential for our success," insists Annan, who has conspicuously avoided taking responsibility for any of the scandals and disasters he has wrought. Promising to conduct "the most sweeping overhaul" of the UN in the world body's 60-year history, Annan declares: "World leaders For a list of heads of state, see . World leaders is a MMORPG. The game involves creating a state, joining an alliance and going into war. It is mostly played by players from Israel, China, USA, Britain, Brazil and Saudi-Arabia. must recapture the spirit of San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and forge a new world compact to advance the cause of larger freedom." Annan's invocation of "the spirit of San Francisco" refers to the UN's founding conference in 1945, which was presided over by FDR-era State Department official--and Soviet spy--Alger Hiss. Mr. Hiss's commitment to "larger freedom" was on display during the Yalta Conference, during which Hiss helped craft an arrangement betraying hundreds of millions of Christians in Eastern Europe into Soviet domination and slavery. The UN has remained faithful to Hiss's vision, as has the scandal-drenched figure currently occupying Hiss's chair. |
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