UN chief remarks 'severe mistake' (BBC) {Bolton still pissy, Annan firm}

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The US ambassador to the United Nations has again heavily criticised the UN deputy secretary general for his remarks about US policy on the UN.
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Mr Bolton has called on Kofi Annan to repudiate his deputy's speech.
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{Bolton} said he told the secretary general: "I've known you since 1989, and I'm telling you, this is the worst mistake by a senior UN official that I have seen in that entire time."
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A spokesman for the UN chief said he stood by his deputy's remarks, who said he had been appealing for engagement from Americans.

"Engage here, engage consistently and go out and engage with the American public to say the UN matters, and for the life of me, I can't understand how that can be construed as an anti-American speech," Mr Malloch Brown said.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5062332.stm

Bolton is staging this prolonged hissyfit to justify withholding US funds from the UN in the name of "encouraging reform". The article makes it pretty clear that this is a blatant threat, only thinly disguised by barely diplomatic language.

Bolton's only assignment is to do what he can to destroy the UN, and he has held nothing back in seeking to accomplish this.

Earlier discussion on this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1376748&mesg_id=1376748

(I think there was at least one other thread, feel free to post links.)

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1. Here's another thread about it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2667630

My cynical comment is reply #6:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2667630&mesg_id=2667669