The Obama Administration has announced that they will no longer allow their ambassador to attend UN Conference on Disarmament meetings because the rotating chairman position has passed to Iran.
The US maintains that since there are sanctions against Iran they should be barred from holding “any formal or ceremonial positions” at the UN. Iran will hold the position from May 27 through June 23.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s spokesman shrugged off the complaints, saying that the 65-member council came up with the monthly rotating leadership plan, and since Iran is a member it was eventually going to be the leader.
Iran has been supportive of calls for a nuclear-free Middle East, a plan which the NPT member states initially supported, but which the US loudly condemned since Israel is the sole nation in the region with nuclear weapons.
One is for peace the other is for war and wars only…, one is after peace the other one have the moon on his mouth but his house is a shambles.
It is one more indication of how insincere the U.S. is about nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament and about its agenda with Iran
To negotiate peace between friend and foe, while putting a muzzle on the foe, surely what an Empire is all about.
Somewhere inside Obama's administration is a bunch of pathetic small minded (correction tiny minded) pro Israelites. Actually they aren't even pro Israel. However they seem to have a hold on Obama's interaction with the UN.
The objection to Palestinians getting status at the UN is perhaps the worst case however the discrediting of Richard Goldstone was equally unfathomable.