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Report: U.N. Call for Global Coronavirus Ceasefire a ‘Catastrophic Failure’
Breitbart.com ^ | 5/11/2020 | Simon Kent

Posted on 05/12/2020 9:11:17 AM PDT by rktman

A call by the United Nations for a global ceasefire to help restore world peace and understanding during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic was branded “a catastrophic failure” Tuesday by Oxfam International.

The international charitable organization published a report saying the U.N. has been totally ignored in its efforts to be a peacebroker.

It outlined that fighting continues unabated across war-torn countries, undermining global efforts to combat the viral epidemic which has infected more than 4.1 million people and caused more than 280,000 deaths worldwide.

The report follows nearly two months after U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ initial appeal for an end to war, as Breitbart News reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; un; unitednations; wasteoftaxdollars
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Butt, butt, butt the u.n. said........... Guess more U.S. tax dollars would help huh? How about 'iansa' stepping up to stop the "flow" of small arms? IOW--strip law abiding people of their firearms. War lords and criminals, meh.
1 posted on 05/12/2020 9:11:17 AM PDT by rktman
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Oh, I forgot this gem from the article: “... help restore world peace and understanding...”. Restore? Yeah, they’ve done such an awesome job since they first came into being. Butt, somebody’s making beacoup bux.


2 posted on 05/12/2020 9:13:29 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Yep that’s the un in a nutshell alright...colossal failure.


3 posted on 05/12/2020 9:13:49 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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There was some liberal mayor or governor who asked criminals to not commit crimes during these corona virus times.


4 posted on 05/12/2020 9:15:10 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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But Guterres would like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. Why won’t they listen? Oh, why! Why! Why!

OK. Let me try this. Where have all the flowers gone?...

RATATATATTATAT! Ow. I have a booboo.

One more try. For every thing, turn, turn, turn, there is a season, turn, turn, turn...


5 posted on 05/12/2020 9:23:05 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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“...published a report saying the U.N. has been totally ignored in its efforts to be a peacebroker.”

This is news?


6 posted on 05/12/2020 9:23:47 AM PDT by bwest
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color me surprised


7 posted on 05/12/2020 9:25:30 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (expect nothing)
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From France 24:

The United States on Friday stunned other members of the UN Security Council by preventing a vote on a resolution for a ceasefire in various conflicts around the world to help troubled nations better fight the coronavirus pandemic, diplomats said.

Washington’s reversal came a day after it agreed to the text, negotiators said under cover of anonymity.

“The United States cannot support the current draft,” the country’s delegation declared, without further detail, to the 14 other Security Council members, after nearly two months of difficult negotiation over the text.


8 posted on 05/12/2020 9:26:41 AM PDT by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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The U.N. calls for global peace and gets totally ignored.

Breitbart must be getting their material from the Babylon Bee.

9 posted on 05/12/2020 9:29:17 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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There was some liberal mayor or governor who asked criminals to not commit crimes during these corona virus times.

democrat mayor of Baltimore.

10 posted on 05/12/2020 9:30:00 AM PDT by Mogger
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This virus didn’t make me like anybody more than I did before or dislike anybody less than I did before. It’s a virus. Why did they think that would change the world?


11 posted on 05/12/2020 9:31:56 AM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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> There was some liberal mayor or governor who asked criminals to not commit crimes during these corona virus times. <

That was the mayor of Baltimore. No word yet on how successful his appeal was. I’m afraid to go into the city and check for myself as my bulletproof vest is at the cleaners.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/baltimore-mayor-asks-residents-to-stop-shooting-each-other-so-coronavirus-patients-can-have-hospital-beds


12 posted on 05/12/2020 9:31:59 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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Confirmation that the U.N. is a folly and a joke. 8>)


13 posted on 05/12/2020 9:33:10 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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How odd that the religion of piece did not jump at the chance to be peaceful.
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14 posted on 05/12/2020 9:34:05 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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IIRC, the Kellogg-Briand Pact made war illegal in 1919. That solved most of our problems right there ...


15 posted on 05/12/2020 9:35:21 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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And if you’re lucky you might even find our next findings even remotely interesting.....


16 posted on 05/12/2020 9:36:40 AM PDT by heshtesh
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Confirmation that the U.N. is a folly and a joke. 8>)

How many times can the same fact be confirmed?


17 posted on 05/12/2020 9:39:35 AM PDT by heshtesh
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A ceasefire? During Ramadan? LOL!!


18 posted on 05/12/2020 10:32:01 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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19 posted on 05/12/2020 10:51:13 AM PDT by xp38
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I read the government request for killers to stop killing while we fight the virus. I chuckled. It’s unbelievable that any adult can so misunderstand the nature of who he is talking to. It’s astonishing that these people get into positions of authority. No wonder we have wasted colossal sums on ridiculous pie in the sky idiocy, such as “curing “ homelessness, as if “homelessness” was the problem. These people are idiots.


20 posted on 05/12/2020 11:16:52 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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