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October 09, 2006
Monday
 
 
On the fringe, there was was something sound at the Tory conference
Will Stephens (London)  International affairs

Work sent me to the Conservative Party conference in last week. It was dull. But I saw the Globalisation Institute had a fringe event so I went along and they gave us all some wine. They had Mark Malloch Brown, the UN's Deputy Secretary-General, give a speech in which he said this:

After all our efforts at reform, Kofi and I felt let down, if not betrayed, by the UN Human Rights Council's biased and unbalanced approach to the Lebanon conflict. They focussed solely on Israeli actions, while ignoring the atrocities committed by Hizbollah.

That certainly woke me up. It is comforting to hear someone from the UN be so honest. Perhaps next we will find that he is an avid reader of the website UNisEvil.com. Somehow I think it unlikely.

Comments

He probably feels he is near retirement, along with Kofi.


Posted by Jacob at October 9, 2006 05:29 PM

Congrats you actually got your pass in time. One of the lucky few! Not even Nirj Deva MEP was able to get that.


Posted by Andrew Ian Dodge at October 9, 2006 05:34 PM

Saith Unisevil.com

U.N. Call for Palestinian State Spells Suicide for Palestinians Arafat's "Palestinian self-determination" really means more of Arafat's despotism—it means granting legitimacy to a state that is utterly hostile to its own citizens.

Now there's a site that is in some urgent need of updating.


Posted by Gabriel at October 9, 2006 07:08 PM
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