At the UN, Iran is on the UN Women’s Rights Commission, the UN Human Rights Council includes Libya, Qatar, and Venezuela, and the UN Conference on Disarmament will be headed by North Korea.
North Korea on Monday will take over as chair of the world disarmament forum which negotiated the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, sparking an appeal (see text below) by over 40 UN-accredited non-governmental organizations for UN chief Antonio Guterres, the U.S., Canada, UK, EU states and other democracies to strongly protest, and for their ambassadors to walk out of the conference during the four weeks of the North Korean presidency, starting on May 30, 2022.
The 65-nation Conference on Disarmament, based in Geneva, is considered the cornerstone of nuclear disarmament efforts. The UN-backed body calls itself “the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community.”
“Having the North Korean regime of Kim Jong-un preside over global nuclear weapons disarmament will be like putting a serial rapist in charge of a women’s shelter,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, a Geneva-based non-governmental organization that monitors the United Nations, and which spearheaded the joint protest.
“This is a country that threatens to attack other UN member states with missiles, and that commits atrocities against its own people. Torture and starvation are routine in North Korean political prison camps where an estimated 100,000 people are held in what is one of the world’s most dire human-rights situations,” said Neuer.
Good point. On the other hand, the next set of chairs will include China and Cuba.
North Korea has chaired the Conference on Disarmament before. It didn’t become any less credible because when a body has zero credibility, it can’t possibly go down. And every single UN body and function has zero credibility. And so every new report like this is just a reminder that the UN is irreparable and that it should not be engaged with.
All you can do is nuke it from orbit, metaphorically if not literally.
The USSR hijacked the UN by filling it with a bunch of corrupt third-world countries along with its own murderous Communist allies. The UN never had a shot to begin with, but after that it just became the EU if it were dominated by warlords, drug cartels, and Communist dictatorships.
Emilie Green says
More than just defund-ing but actually exiting the USA from the UN has been a continuing program of the John Birch Society.
If more would sign on to this program then this sort of organized resistance to the UN and the plan for the NWO could be stopped.
Info can be found on the web.
Tom says
Talk about putting the despotic foxes in charge of the proverbial henhouse.
The idea of bringing these despotic regimes along to become less oppressive by giving them power in the UN has been a complete failure and so they should be relegated back to just membership statue, and even that should be in jeopardy if they continue to oppress their people.
Kenneth J Johnson says
tHE un was a failure from the start. Howecer, the USA,l being a ve ry idealisltic couintry supported the idea and has proviodsed most of the funding. How much?? 80%?? tRUE, THERE HAVE BEEN SOME SUJCCESES, BUT NOT IN WORLD PEACE. KEN
Wellington says
The League of Nations was merely inept and powerless. The UN, by contrast, is malevolent and possessed of much power.
It is an international organization where representatives from all kinds of authoritarian states come and lecture representatives of democratic states on what they’re doing wrong—and way too many representatives of democratic states continue to let this occur, rather as the current Secretary of State for the USA, Tony Blinken, back in 2021 in Alaska, let China, a huge major rights abuser, lecture him about wrongs in America—and Blinken just sat there taking this shit from the shit regime which is running China.
Think Pompeo, Trump’s Secretary of State, would have taken this crap? No way. And one of many examples of how the current bogus Biden Administration is an ally of decrepit and evil organizations like the UN (the PA is another), let alone being a suck-up to the monstrous regime now running China.
Let’s Go Brandon. And thanks again to all the fools who actually voted for the giant nothing which is Biden. You did America and freedom a great disservice.
gravenimage says
Good analysis.
commonsense says
Bravo, Wellington!
Treereen says
It’s been clear for a long time the UN is nothing more than an instrument for applying pressure and only to the West, while primarily funded by the West, where craven Western politicians embrace all the detrimental policies, without mandate, every time, and treat them as something sacred.
Everyone else ignores anything inconvenient the UN says, not that the UN has much to say to them on the many subjects it admonishes the West for.
It can’t be that nobody has noticed the ludicrous situation where Iran heads anything “human rights” and North Korea heads anything “disarmament” and Russia heads anything. I wonder why countries such as Eastern European ones that resist EU diktats continue to go along with the UN, the complimentary cheek of the same “bottom”.
gravenimage says
The main purpose of the UN is excoriating the free West and condemning democratic Israel.
maria says
Yes UN is an antisemitic organization and should be defund.
Treereen says
That much is certain. A “permanent agenda item” to pass condemnatory resolutions exclusively against Israel is certainly not in the best spirit of “global kumbaya”.
The other item I venomously dislike is the UN definition of “indigenous peoples”. It’s not “peoples” who have lived in a land for a long time thus neatly excluding Europeans, Americans and Australians and possibly Israelis as well. To the UN, it always means “those who experienced European colonial oppression”. This in turn nullifies all the lofty UNCHR legal language on protecting an “indigenous” group from detrimental changes or annihilation by immigration, like what is happening to the West now.
Roland says
Transparently Orwellian!
gravenimage says
Defund the UN
At the UN, Iran is on the UN Women’s Rights Commission, the UN Human Rights Council includes Libya, Qatar, and Venezuela, and the UN Conference on Disarmament will be headed by North Korea.
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Utterly grotesque–and this sort of insanity has been going on for years now. We’re not talking about nations that are imperfect or have some things to work on, but literally the worst nations in the world sitting on these boards.
That makes this no more than a perverse kind of theater–but it’s even worse when it gives these tyrannies an unearned respect.
There is no reason for us to go on funding this. President Trump was right.
commonsense says
+100.
gravenimage says
Thank you, commonsense.