January 15, 2009

Jerry Gordon comment:

Claudia Rosset will be the featured speaker on January 16th at the Tiger Bay Club in Pensacola Florida. The topic is the United Nations. My report will follow.

What do Obama and Susan Rice propose to do about this?

by Claudia Rosset, Forbes.com , Jan. 15, 2009

Truly, I had plans to write this week about something other than the United Nations. But over at Turtle Bay, here they go again.

To chair the 2009 governing board of the U.N.’s flagship agency, the multibillion-dollar globe-girdling United Nations Development Program, dedicated to promoting good governance and ending poverty, the U.N. has now picked–wait for it–the Islamic Republic of Iran.

This decision–reached last Friday–has escaped public notice, perhaps because the UNDP has neglected to advertise the news, or maybe because the world is too busy watching in Gaza the latest product of Iran’s terrorist development programs in the Middle East.

But handing Iran the gavel of the UNDP executive board ranks right up there with the U.N.’s choice in 2003 of Libya to head the old Human Rights Commission, or Zimbabwe in 2007 to chair the Commission on Sustainable Development.
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