US threatens to delay UN budget if reforms not done

[Eugene]

US threatens to delay UN budget if reforms not done

Nov 22, 2005 — By Evelyn Leopold

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States threatened on Tuesday to
delay the two-year United Nations budget unless reforms are approved by
the end of the year, a move that could cause havoc for U.N. staff.

U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said Secretary-General Kofi Annan and his
staff have acknowledged they might not have all the management and
other proposals until February.

Although a U.N summit document calls on Annan to provide
"recommendations to the General Assembly for decision" during the first
quarter of 2006, Bolton said this was too late.

"I don't think we should be in a position of losing the momentum for
reform because of the budget process," he told reporters. "The reform
should drive the budget process and not the other way around."

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[merwin]

1. How long until they kick us out?

[indepat]

3. Like ultimatums of our way or the highway might blow up in someone's face?

[harlinchi]

2. And the biggest reform is to make sure the UN says nothing about the...

...proposed (and actually ongoing) plunder of Iraqi oil bucks. More politics of prestidigitation, this is. Focus on my left hand, demanding UN reforms, while my right hand negotiates contracts that provide hundreds of billions of bucks to big oil. Presto!

It's not magic; it's just theft. It's the sort of theft that people get violent about. Might these be the freedoms our president said the insurgents hate?

[PDJane]

4. Yes, it is.

[longship]

5. This looks like one for the INews 5000 Headline Translator

Di-di-di-di-da-da-da-da!

From ABC News: "US Threatens To Delay UN Budget If Reforms Not Done"

Translation... Beep... Squeek... Squoot... Bleep... Blop.... DING!

"US Delays UN Budget Until Rapture"

Bah-bah-bah-bahhhh... di-di-di-di-di

With apologies to Marc Maron of Morning Sedition.

[leveymg]

6. Why don't they just tell us to come back in a couple years

And, next time, it's cash on the barrelhead. No tabs at the bar.

[ewagner]

7. That's quick

Bolton is starting the blackmail quickly.

He wants a reason to withdraw us from the UN. This is just the first attempt to create a crisis.

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[MasonJar]

9. If we don't pay, the UN should send Bolton his pink slip asap.

[ShockediSay]

10. Why can't we delay US budget if reforms are not done

I mean taking away from medicare, medicaid, food stamps, student loans so the filthy rich can get more so?

Filibuster time.

Give it a go before ScAlito comes to the plate.