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UN honors Uganda and Israel for invasion, war, and occupation

Submitted by Ann Garrison on Sun, 06/22/2014 - 00:09

 

KPFA Evening News, 06.14.2014

Last week the UN General Assembly elected Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa to be its president for the next year. This week the UN Special Political and Decolonization Committee elected Israel's representative to be its vice chair.  

Transcript: 
 
KPFA Evening News Anchor Sharon Sobotta: The territorial integrity of sovereign nations is a founding principle of the United Nations. Many have remarked, however, that UN honors recently bestowed onUganda's Sam Kutesa, UN General Assembly PresidentUganda, and then Israel, make it hard to believe that the UN is seriously committed to its own ideals. 
 
KPFA/Ann Garrison:  Last week, the United Nations General Assembly elected Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa to serve as its president for the next year, even though Uganda has invaded Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan, in the past 25 years, starting wars that left millions of people dead. 
 
Here's what Ugandan American Black Star News Editor Milton Alliimade had to say about Kutesa's candidacy, earlier this year on KPFA's Morning Mix:
 
Milton Allimadi: As many listeners know, Uganda, at this time, is the least deserving country to have its candidate become President of the General Assembly. In addition to the President signing the detestable anti-gay law on February 24, Uganda has committed numerous violations of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Congo and Rwanda, and most recently South Sudan. And of course, the United Nation is based on that cardinal principal of respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty. Now, how can a country, whose army has violated this cardinal principle so many times, then have its Foreign Affairs Minister become president of the UN General Assembly? It's preposterous actually.
 
KPFA: Three days ago, on June 18th, the UN General Assembly's Special Political and Decolonization Committee elected Israel's representative Mordehai Amihai to serve as its vice chair. Amihai had been nominated by the Group of Western European Nations and other UN member states - others meaning the U.S., Canada, Australia, Greenland, New Zealand, and several other island nations. 
 
According to UN minutes, Israel's representative received 74 of 76 votes cast, despite strong opposition from the Arab Group of UN member states."
Qatar's representative, speaking on behalf of the Arab states, described Israel as a "State that violated the United Nations Charter and international law," and said that "because its track record was rife with murder and its occupation had lasted more than 66 years, Israel was not qualified to preside over questions pertaining to Palestinian refugees, peacekeeping and the investigation of its own illegal practices."
 
In Berkeley, for Pacifica, KPFA Radio, I'm Ann Garrison.  
 
Tags: 
Uganda
Sam Kutesa
Israel
Mordehai Amihai
United Nations
General Assembly

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