Hillary Clinton: United Nations Is 'Single Most Important Global Institution'

[FrankRep]

Hillary Clinton: United Nations Is 'Single Most Important Global Institution'


In a speech before the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) on Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised the work of the United Nations and said it is 'the single most important global institution.'


CNS News
September 08, 2010


In a speech before the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) on Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised the work of the United Nations and said it is “the single most important global institution.”

At the CFR in Washington, D.C., Clinton said, “Now the U.N. remains the single most important global institution. We are constantly reminded of its value: The Security Council enacting sanctions against Iran and North Korea. Peacekeepers patrolling the streets of Monrovia and Port-au-Prince. Aid workers assisting flood victims in Pakistan and displaced people in Darfur.”

“And, most recently, the U.N. General Assembly establishing a new entity, U.N. Women, which will promote gender equality, expand opportunity for women and girls, and tackle the violence and discrimination they face,” Clinton said.

Clinton did acknowledge what she described as “limitations” of the U.N. because of “diverse perspective and interests."

“But we are also constantly reminded of its [the U.N.] limitations,” Clinton said. “It is difficult for the UN’s 192 Member States, with their diverse perspectives and interests, to achieve consensus on institutional reform, especially reforming the Security Council itself.”

“The United States believes that the Council must be able to react to and reflect today’s world,” Clinton said. “We favor Security Council reform that enhances the U.N.'s overall performance, effectiveness and efficiency to meet the challenges of the new century.”

Besides the United Nations, other global institutions include religious denominations with worldwide reach, such as the Roman Catholic Church, secular institutions such as the International Committee of the Red Cross, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, Doctors Without Borders, and the G-20, and multi-national firms such as General Electric, Toyota and ExxonMobil.


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[FrankRep]

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Support H.R. 1146, to get the United States out of the United Nations


Warren Mass | John Birch Society
23 April 2009


On February 24, Rep. Ron Paul (R.-Texas) introduced H.R. 1146, the American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2009 in the House and the legislation was referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. The bill was cosponsored by Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (R.-Tenn.) on March 19.

The stated objective of H.R. 1146 is to end membership of the United States in the United Nations. It would accomplish this end by initiating the following actions:

* Repeal the United Nations Participation Act of 1945;
* Require the president to terminate all participation by the United States in the United Nations, and any organ, specialized agency, commission, or other formally affiliated body of the United Nations;
* Close the United States Mission to United Nations;
* Terminate the appropriation of funds for assessed or voluntary contributions of the United States to the United Nations or any of its affiliated agencies;
* Prohibit funding of contributions to any United Nations military operation;
* Prohibit any member of the Armed Forces of the United States from serving under the command of the United Nations;
* Prohibit employees of the United Nations from using U.S. government property;
* Suspend diplomatic immunity for officers and employees of the United Nations;
* Repeal acts authorizing U.S. participation in UN agencies such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization; the United Nations Environment Program; and the World Health Organization; and would end all participation in any and all conventions and agreements with the United Nations.​

In “America’s Role in the United Nations,” a statement made before the House on September 18, 2000, Rep. Paul explained his reasons for introducing this legislation, which he has done in every Congress since 1997. A key part of his argument follows:

To date, Congress has attempted to curb the abuse of power of the United Nations by urging the United Nations to reform itself, threatening the nonpayment of assessments and dues allegedly owed by the United States and thereby cutting off the United Nations' major source of funds. America's problems with the United Nations will not, however, be solved by such reform measures. The threat posed by the United Nations to the sovereignty of the United States and independence is not that the United Nations is currently plagued by a bloated and irresponsible international bureaucracy. Rather, the threat arises from the United Nation's Charter which — from the beginning — was a threat to sovereignty protections in the U.S. Constitution. The American people have not, however, approved of the Charter of the United Nations which, by its nature, cannot be the supreme law of the land for it was never 'made under the Authority of the U.S.,' as required by Article VI. (Emphasis added.)​

Those unfamiliar with some of the problematic aspects of U.S. participation in the UN might consider the UN’s role on the side of tyranny in several historic contests. These include, but are not limited to:

* In 1961, when Moise Tshombe, the respected leader of the peaceful province of Katanga, tried to secede from the central government of the Congo controlled by the brutal thug, Patrice Lumumba, the United Nations sent in troops not to quell Lumumba's brutality but to suppress Tshombe's secession.
* In 1971, the UN General Assembly voted to oust Nationalist China (Taiwan) and welcome in its place the bloodiest regime the world has ever known, the dictatorship led by Mao Zedong, who had murdered in excess of 60 million of its own subjects since gaining power with U.S. help in 1949.
* UN forces in Rwanda actually abetted the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Peter Hammond of Frontline Fellowship in Holocaust in Rwanda, testified that Belgian UN troops stationed in a heavily fortified compound in Kigali “deceived the [Tutsi] refugees by assembling them for a meal in the dining hall and then [they] evacuated the base while the refugees were eating. Literally two minutes after the Belgians had driven out of their base, the Presidential Guard poured into the buildings annihilating the defenseless Tutsi refugees.”​

Far from being mankind’s “last hope for peace,” the UN has consistently provided a forum for tyrants and tin pot dictators to spew their vitriol; has favored tyrannical regimes over free societies in many international conflicts; and has threatened the sovereignty of the world’s free nations, by entangling them in numerous compacts and conventions that are the building blocks of a world government.

The late Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, who had initially approved of the establishment of the UN, later publicly lamented his action, claiming, “The UN is a trap; let’s go it alone!”

Follow this link to an alert that allows you to contact your representative and senators now, urging them to support this important defense of U.S. sovereignty.


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[nate895]

In a sense, the UN is the most important global institution. Should it be that way? Absolutely not.

 

[amy31416]

“And, most recently, the U.N. General Assembly establishing a new entity, U.N. Women, which will promote gender equality, expand opportunity for women and girls, and tackle the violence and discrimination they face,” Clinton said.

Gotta get the oppressed, 3rd world women into the warmongering somehow...you know it'll be a group that supports bombing the shit out of a country for discrimination, real or imagined. Civilian casualties are an unfortunate byproduct.

 

[oyarde]

Insanity .

 

[RSLudlum]

Really? I thought the Federal Reserve was? Is the UN now in control of the reserve currency of the world?

 

[Andrew Ryan]

I greatly look forward to the day when it collapses and implodes.

 

[Daamien]

I'd argue that OPEC is more important and relevant, but every bit as distasteful.

 

[james1906]

I greatly look forward to the day when it collapses and implodes.

Convert it into apartments. Keep all the flags outside and call it "The International."

 

[LadyBastiat]

convert it into apartments. Keep all the flags outside and call it "the international."

lol