Posted on 09/13/2005 6:21:57 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
U.N. reform agenda watered-down
General Assembly adopts wording stripped of details
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday adopted a watered-down draft document on poverty, human rights and reform for this week's summit of world leaders to consider, shedding many of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's ambitious goals after weeks of bitter debate.
The compromise 35-page document is supposed to launch a major reform of the United Nations itself and galvanize efforts to ease global poverty. But to reach a consensus, most of the text's details were gutted in favor of abstract language.
A definition of terrorism and details on how to replace the discredited U.N. Commission on Human Rights were not included.
U.S.-led efforts to overhaul U.N. management were diluted, while nuclear nonproliferation was not mentioned at all.
"Obviously we didn't get everything we wanted and with 191 member states it's not easy to get an agreement," Annan said. "All of us would have wanted more but we can work with what we have been given, and it's a step forward."
Annan had gambled that by calling the three-day summit -- the largest gathering of world leaders in history -- he could push through a list of sweeping U.N. reforms and refocus attention on the Millennium Development Goals, a set of targets for reducing poverty and disease by 2015.
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Ping!
As long as 80+% of the member nations remain socialist sewers and totalitarian toilets, no amount of "reform" is gonna do a damn bit of good.
Thank you John Bolton, and shame on the Democrats for delaying his appointment lo these many months!
Are they pushing for North Korea to be a part of or lead the Human Rights Commission now instead of Libya?
ditto
I'm shocked that the inmates refuse to reform the asylum.
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