http://www.unsg.org/wordpress/archives/115 UNSG.org provides news and commentary on the selection process of the next United Nations Secretary General, including information on potential candidates and governments' positions. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:32:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://www.unsg.org/wordpress/archives/115#comment-548 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 21:46:46 +0000 http://www.unsg.org/wordpress/archives/115#comment-548 [...] OneFreeKorea | Blog Archive » The Case for Blocking Ban Ki-Moon: I’m betting on the U.N. to flub it, and I can even tell you how it’s going to happen. The front-runner to replace Kofi Annan is South Korea’s leftist Foreign Minister, Ban Ki-Moon, a man whose record embodies the very worst we’ve come to expect from the U.N.: passive-aggressive policies that appease evil and confront all efforts to define or enforce standards of civilized conduct. As Foreign Minister, Ban was architect and executor of a no-questions-asked appeasement policy toward North Korea. During those years, North Korea’s human rights record was the worst on earth, and probably the worst since the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Kim Jong Il’s absolutist regime, supported by $7 billion in South Korean aid since 1994, stands accused of racial infanticide, the use of gas chambers for horrific chemical weapons on entire families, and a politically selective famine that “cleansed” North Korea of millions while the regime went on an arms-buying spree. North Korea’s forced labor camps are estimated to hold as many as 250,000 people, including thousands of children. Ban and his government had little to say and nothing to ask as these atrocities went on, and go on to this very day. When resolutions condemning these crimes came before the U.N. Human Rights Commission, and later, the General assembly, South Korea’s ambassadors were instructed to either refuse to vote or abstain. Publicly, Ban’s government failed to raise more than one mild, belated, token call to improve human rights in the North, and then, only in the most vague and general sense and in response to withering criticism from abroad. [...] […] OneFreeKorea | Blog Archive » The Case for Blocking Ban Ki-Moon: I’m betting on the U.N. to flub it, and I can even tell you how it’s going to happen. The front-runner to replace Kofi Annan is South Korea’s leftist Foreign Minister, Ban Ki-Moon, a man whose record embodies the very worst we’ve come to expect from the U.N.: passive-aggressive policies that appease evil and confront all efforts to define or enforce standards of civilized conduct. As Foreign Minister, Ban was architect and executor of a no-questions-asked appeasement policy toward North Korea. During those years, North Korea’s human rights record was the worst on earth, and probably the worst since the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Kim Jong Il’s absolutist regime, supported by $7 billion in South Korean aid since 1994, stands accused of racial infanticide, the use of gas chambers for horrific chemical weapons on entire families, and a politically selective famine that “cleansed” North Korea of millions while the regime went on an arms-buying spree. North Korea’s forced labor camps are estimated to hold as many as 250,000 people, including thousands of children. Ban and his government had little to say and nothing to ask as these atrocities went on, and go on to this very day. When resolutions condemning these crimes came before the U.N. Human Rights Commission, and later, the General assembly, South Korea’s ambassadors were instructed to either refuse to vote or abstain. Publicly, Ban’s government failed to raise more than one mild, belated, token call to improve human rights in the North, and then, only in the most vague and general sense and in response to withering criticism from abroad. […]

]]> http://www.unsg.org/wordpress/archives/115#comment-541 Sat, 07 Oct 2006 15:23:43 +0000 http://www.unsg.org/wordpress/archives/115#comment-541 [...] I’m betting on the U.N. to flub it, and I can even tell you how it’s going to happen. The front-runner to replace Kofi Annan is South Korea’s leftist Foreign Minister, Ban Ki-Moon, a man whose record embodies the very worst we’ve come to expect from the U.N.: passive-aggressive policies that appease evil and confront all efforts to define or enforce standards of civilized conduct. As Foreign Minister, Ban was architect and executor of a no-questions-asked appeasement policy toward North Korea. During those years, North Korea’s human rights record was the worst on earth, and probably the worst since the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Kim Jong Il’s absolutist regime, supported by $7 billion in South Korean aid since 1994, stands accused of racial infanticide, the use of gas chambers for horrific chemical weapons on entire families, and a politically selective famine that “cleansed” North Korea of millions while the regime went on an arms-buying spree. North Korea’s forced labor camps are estimated to hold as many as 250,000 people, including thousands of children. [...] […] I’m betting on the U.N. to flub it, and I can even tell you how it’s going to happen. The front-runner to replace Kofi Annan is South Korea’s leftist Foreign Minister, Ban Ki-Moon, a man whose record embodies the very worst we’ve come to expect from the U.N.: passive-aggressive policies that appease evil and confront all efforts to define or enforce standards of civilized conduct. As Foreign Minister, Ban was architect and executor of a no-questions-asked appeasement policy toward North Korea. During those years, North Korea’s human rights record was the worst on earth, and probably the worst since the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Kim Jong Il’s absolutist regime, supported by $7 billion in South Korean aid since 1994, stands accused of racial infanticide, the use of gas chambers for horrific chemical weapons on entire families, and a politically selective famine that “cleansed” North Korea of millions while the regime went on an arms-buying spree. North Korea’s forced labor camps are estimated to hold as many as 250,000 people, including thousands of children. […]

]]> http://www.unsg.org/wordpress/archives/115#comment-482 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:21:16 +0000 http://www.unsg.org/wordpress/archives/115#comment-482 [...] I’m betting on the U.N. to flub it, and I can even tell you how it’s going to happen. The front-runner to replace Kofi Annan is South Korea’s leftist Foreign Minister, Ban Ki-Moon, a man whose record embodies the very worst we’ve come to expect from the U.N.: passive-aggressive policies that appease evil and confront all efforts to define or enforce standards of civilized conduct. As Foreign Minister, Ban was architect and executor of a no-questions-asked appeasement policy toward North Korea. During those years, North Korea’s human rights record was the worst on earth, and probably the worst since the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Kim Jong Il’s absolutist regime, supported by $7 billion in South Korean aid since 1994, stands accused of racial infanticide, the use of gas chambers for horrific chemical weapons on entire families, and a politically selective famine that “cleansed” North Korea of millions while the regime went on an arms-buying spree. North Korea’s forced labor camps are estimated to hold as many as 250,000 people, including thousands of children. [...] […] I’m betting on the U.N. to flub it, and I can even tell you how it’s going to happen. The front-runner to replace Kofi Annan is South Korea’s leftist Foreign Minister, Ban Ki-Moon, a man whose record embodies the very worst we’ve come to expect from the U.N.: passive-aggressive policies that appease evil and confront all efforts to define or enforce standards of civilized conduct. As Foreign Minister, Ban was architect and executor of a no-questions-asked appeasement policy toward North Korea. During those years, North Korea’s human rights record was the worst on earth, and probably the worst since the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Kim Jong Il’s absolutist regime, supported by $7 billion in South Korean aid since 1994, stands accused of racial infanticide, the use of gas chambers for horrific chemical weapons on entire families, and a politically selective famine that “cleansed” North Korea of millions while the regime went on an arms-buying spree. North Korea’s forced labor camps are estimated to hold as many as 250,000 people, including thousands of children. […]

]]> http://www.unsg.org/wordpress/archives/115#comment-357 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 20:35:26 +0000 http://www.unsg.org/wordpress/archives/115#comment-357 [...] Considering that the results of the Security Council’s straw poll last month leaked within hours of the vote only supports Hirsch’s contention that someone will talk if the media cared to probe. And it is not as if this discussion is taking place in a conflict zone, or amid the rubble of a natural disaster or otherwise far away from the comfortable surroundings of journalists’ desks. It’s right down the street, for crying out loud! Hirsch seems to be pleading. [...] […] Considering that the results of the Security Council’s straw poll last month leaked within hours of the vote only supports Hirsch’s contention that someone will talk if the media cared to probe. And it is not as if this discussion is taking place in a conflict zone, or amid the rubble of a natural disaster or otherwise far away from the comfortable surroundings of journalists’ desks. It’s right down the street, for crying out loud! Hirsch seems to be pleading. […]

]]> http://www.unsg.org/wordpress/archives/115#comment-281 Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:18:40 +0000 http://www.unsg.org/wordpress/archives/115#comment-281 Niranjan Deva was firmly rebuffed....Well done! But why Ban ki Moor is given the kiss of death?He is still very kiddish.Let him survive.Dr. Tharoor is the blazing Sun.Why to bring the torchlight from outside when Sun is inside the UN?No one is better positioned than Mr. Tharoor to understand the infrastructure of UN & make it work spontaneously with new reforms. Dr. Tharoor can survive with the kiss of death,because he knows how to embrace Life & transform darkness into light.India is a land which had taught to its sons & daughters, how to rcv the coming tomorrows.Since aeons, every morning, Mother India wakes up with her children's determination to walk towards truth from untruth, to walk towards light from darkness, to walk towards Immortality from Death.Sons & daughters of Anjanaabha (World) & Bharath(India) feel proud to join their every step with Mr. Tharoor in this 21st Century.In Sanskrit, we the people, as one world chant the essence & purpose of human life in the evolution of this globe.Our prayers & blessings are still with Mr. Tharoor to transform the kiss of death into beautiful emrace of life to the whole world. God bless Mr. Tharoor. Asathoma Sadgamaya Thamosoma Jyothirgamaya Mrithyorma Amrithangamaya Shanthi Shanthi Shanthi Niranjan Deva was firmly rebuffed….Well done! But why Ban ki Moor is given the kiss of death?He is still very kiddish.Let him survive.Dr. Tharoor is the blazing Sun.Why to bring the torchlight from outside when Sun is inside the UN?No one is better positioned than Mr. Tharoor to understand the infrastructure of UN & make it work spontaneously with new reforms. Dr. Tharoor can survive with the kiss of death,because he knows how to embrace Life & transform darkness into light.India is a land which had taught to its sons & daughters, how to rcv the coming tomorrows.Since aeons, every morning, Mother India wakes up with her children’s determination to walk towards truth from untruth, to walk towards light from darkness, to walk towards Immortality from Death.Sons & daughters of Anjanaabha (World) & Bharath(India) feel proud to join their every step with Mr. Tharoor in this 21st Century.In Sanskrit, we the people, as one world chant the essence & purpose of human life in the evolution of this globe.Our prayers & blessings are still with Mr. Tharoor to transform the kiss of death into beautiful emrace of life to the whole world.
God bless Mr. Tharoor.
Asathoma Sadgamaya
Thamosoma Jyothirgamaya
Mrithyorma Amrithangamaya
Shanthi Shanthi Shanthi

]]> http://www.unsg.org/wordpress/archives/115#comment-280 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:27:40 +0000 http://www.unsg.org/wordpress/archives/115#comment-280 It's time for Dhanapala and Surakiart to graciously bow out of the race. It's also time for the Non-aligned Movement and G-77 to seriously think about whether one of their own should be leading the UN after Kofi Annan. Can we expect solidarity among the developing nations? It’s time for Dhanapala and Surakiart to graciously bow out of the race. It’s also time for the Non-aligned Movement and G-77 to seriously think about whether one of their own should be leading the UN after Kofi Annan. Can we expect solidarity among the developing nations?

]]> http://www.unsg.org/wordpress/archives/115#comment-279 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:34:48 +0000 http://www.unsg.org/wordpress/archives/115#comment-279 Looks like its time for both Surakiart and Dhanapala to bow out. ASEAN's just went through the motion of reaffirming its support for Surakiart's candidacy, but this will raise again the question of whether Singapore will throw Goh Chok Tong or some other Singaporean's hat into the ring. With the political crisis in Thailand together with Surakiart's own lackluster campaign performance, one would hope he would have the good sense to withdraw, but perhaps he's as stubborn as his mentor Thaksin? And Dhanapala? He never really had a shot, and the latest round of campaigning this week by his aide seemed to have backfired. Looks like its time for both Surakiart and Dhanapala to bow out. ASEAN’s just went through the motion of reaffirming its support for Surakiart’s candidacy, but this will raise again the question of whether Singapore will throw Goh Chok Tong or some other Singaporean’s hat into the ring. With the political crisis in Thailand together with Surakiart’s own lackluster campaign performance, one would hope he would have the good sense to withdraw, but perhaps he’s as stubborn as his mentor Thaksin? And Dhanapala? He never really had a shot, and the latest round of campaigning this week by his aide seemed to have backfired.

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