Comments on: Wanted: UN Lobbyist

By: kappiy

kappiy — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 06:31:26 +0000

I am not sure why the UN should have a lobbyist in any country--let alone the US. The UN is only as pertinent as its member states make it. In fact, this plan seems to violate the UN Charter (Art. 2, #7; Art. 100) as it would assume involvement in a member state's affairs.

Certainly the recent noise made by members of Congress regarding Kofi Annan's role in the so-called "oil for food scandal" is guided by ideological considerations and absolutely void of independent evidence. But creating a lobbying presence in Wsashington is not the correct (or legal) way to silence these baseless charges.

By: chez Nadezhda

chez Nadezhda — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 06:03:25 +0000

He didn't get the message
[UPDATE 1-14-05 1:0AM EST] by nadezhda

Courtesy Outside the Beltway, this item in the FT: The United Nations is looking for a well-connected Washington figure to head its information office there, as part of a wide-ranging image makeover to improv...

By: bryan

bryan — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 02:53:11 +0000

I hear Dan Rather's going to be free in a few months. ;-)

By: Arguing with signposts... » Help wanted

Arguing with signposts... » Help wanted — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

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