"We cannot compromise on core values," he said in Madrid on the first anniversary of the train bombings that killed 191 people in the Spanish capital. "Human rights and the rule of law must always be respected."
Oh, this is rich. Maybe he meant: "Human rights and the rule of law must always be respected. . .by everyone but me, the entire bureaucracy of the UN, UN peacekeepers, my son Kojo, dictators and thugs who sit on the Security Council, etc., etc."
Right Kofi, the right of terrorist to kill, behead and maim with international immunity must be maintained. The very thought of the United States and England retaliating for such things as an attack on the WTC is repugnant to the UN.
kofi and UN lost NOTHING on 9/11. their opinions do not matter.
Kofi has taken up the anti-terror banner just so he can slam the U.S. and a back-door fashion, not to actually accomplish anyhting.
Wow sounds allmost as bad as cutting off heads.
Who would listen to the mastermind of the biggest heist in history. OKs abuse of women right under his nose, and avoids taking action on resolutions of his own organization.
Human rights must be respected.
Especially if you are the leader of N. Korea
Especially if you are the leader of Cuba
Especially if you are the leader of Sudan
Especially if you are the leader of Saudi Arabia
Especially if you are the leader of Syria
Especially if you are the leader of Red China
Not so much if you are one of the repressed people in any of those countries.
Human rights must ALWAYS be respected. Unless you are one of the 191 people that died last year in Madrid. Those people's rights don't mean a damned thing.
As always, he and the other UN Leftists are much more concerned with protecting the terrorists, dictators and torturers than the victims, dictated to and tortured.
Funny, Annan didn't complain about Saddam's and Castro's human rights abuses, nor does he mentioned this latest one by China:
China arrests more than 800,000 people for endangering state security (Tibetan monks, etc.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1360363/posts
Tibetan monks, Xinjiang Muslims, but also non violent dissidents, farmers and members of underground religious communities are among those arrested.
Endangering state security is a term China’s communist leaders use to detain people who oppose their rule and ideological control, including peaceful dissidents.
Thousands of dissidents are jailed every year for allegedly endangering state security by engaging in pro-democracy activities or publishing essays on the internet that are seen as subversive.
Tibetan monks and Xinjiang Muslims in northwest China who advocate independence are often targeted by Chinese authorities as terrorists, separatists or religious extremists.
Clergymen and laity from underground Christian communities are also arrested for “endangering public order”.
"The UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, launched a fierce attack on Britain and the US yesterday for weakening human rights"
He's kidding, right?
Looks like we are getting to Coffee. He is bitting back, but has no teeth. I say keep the investigations coming and keep the foot on the gas pedal that is the Oil for Food investigation.
Of course, he cares not much for the rights of Rwandans or Congolese.
Isn't "Famous Anus" from Ghana, where rights are few and far between? Does he chide his paymasters in the jihadist swtates? The UN? FM!
"Annan attacks erosion of rights in war on terror..."
Kofi Annan is an impotent bag of hypocritical wind! Kofi the Effete should shut-up and shop for another silk suit.
Kofi Annan: Please forward your message to the following countries before referring this matter to us.
Syria
Iran
China
North Korea
Burma
Indonesia
Zimbabwe
Sudan
Egypt
Chile
Venezuela
Do I really need to continue here ?
Take the following for example: Mr Annan appealed to the world's political, religious, and civic leaders to state unequivocally that "terrorism is unacceptable under any circumstances and in any culture". Rounding on the argument that oppressed people had a right to resist occupation, he said this could not include the right to deliberately kill or maim civilians.
If I am not mistaken, this is a better, harder line for UN rhetoric and potentially policy.
Is this the same guy who fought against our going in to Iraq? And hasn't stopped the genocide in Darfur?
Element Gold: Me and my family must always profit from any UN endeavors.
Element Lead: I and the UN must control the military forces used in confronting the terrorist
Element Mercury: My 'quick-silver' tongue must be the sole arbiter of any disputes between terrorist nations and the civilized world.
Element Tin: I will be solely responsible for negotiating tin clad treaties with tinpot dictators.
Element Silver: Fifty pieces paid to me negates any of the above provisions.