Hey Hey Ho Ho Kofi Has Got to Go!
I could not resist pretending I was a BDS bot for a minute, sorry.
On Thursday June 15th our renewed friends in India nominated the current under secretary general for communications and public information, Shashi Tharoor for the next term of UN Secretary General. Yes you heard me correctly we’ll have an extra reason to celebrate this coming New Years, the end of Kofi Annan’s reign at the UN. China being their usual happy go lucky selves have demanded that the next UN Sec. Gen. be asian, it appears almost certain that demand will be met. There are other candidates also in the running, one each from South Korea, Thailand and Sri Lanka, and according to UNSG Jordan’s Prince Zeid may become a candidate. I was not aware of this but apparently only the security counsel is allowed to vote for the Sec. Gen whom requires at least nine votes and no ‘Perm 5′ veto’s,which is actually a bit reassuring.
I bring up Mr. Tharoor because he strikes me as the sort of guy the United States may want leading the UN out of it’s culture of corruption. He’s an accomplished author, seems to have the skills for the job, been around long enough to know the problem areas and most of all has some of his views available on the net, including his own website chuck full of information.
Selective quote from Mr. Tharoor:
If I had suggested to my superiors at that time [27 years ago] that the UN would one day observe and even run elections in sovereign states, conduct intrusive inspections for weapons of mass destruction, impose comprehensive sanctions on the entire import-export trade of a member state, or set up international criminal tribunals and coerce governments into handing over their citizens to be tried by foreigners under international law, they would have told me that I did not understand what the UN was all about.
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