Posted on 02/13/2008 5:52:55 PM PST by mdittmar
Report Will Be Considered at Millennium Summit 6 to 8 September; Outlines Plan for Addressing Challenges Facing International Community
The United Nations mattered only to the extent that it could make a useful contribution to solving the problems and accomplishing the tasks presented to it, stated the Secretary-General this morning, as he presented his Millennium Report to the General Assembly. “If we lose sight of that point, the United Nations would have little or no role to play at all in the twenty-first century.”
The Secretary-General’s report -- “We the peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century”, will be considered by a special Millennium Summit from 6 to 8 September, a rare meeting of heads of State and government from around the world, scheduled on the eve of the first General Assembly of the new millennium. In it, he attempts to identify the main challenges facing the international community as it enters the twenty-first century and sketches out an action plan for addressing them.
If one word encapsulated all the changes the world was living through, it was globalization, the Secretary-General continued. Among its problems was that its opportunities were far from equally distributed. How could it be said that the half of the human race, which had yet to make or receive a telephone call, let alone use a computer, was taking part in globalization? Also, even where the global market did reach, it was not yet underpinned by rules based on shared social objectives. The overarching challenge today was to make globalization mean more than bigger markets.
Now, for that project, that means preserving the Star Spangled Banner and the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and it means making an unprecedented commitment to medical research and to get the best of the new technology. But that's not a bad slogan for us when we deal with more sober, more difficult, more dangerous matters.
Obama’s Global Tax Proposal Up for Senate Vote
A release from the Obama Senate office about the bill declares, “In 2000, the U.S. joined more than 180 countries at the United Nations Millennium Summit and vowed to reduce global poverty by 2015. We are halfway towards this deadline, and it is time the United States makes it a priority of our foreign policy to meet this goal and help those who are struggling day to day.”
The role of the United Nothings is Zero!
Screw them people. They are commies.
Note the past tense. It's over for the UN.
I don’t like the UN. I wish it would go away...
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