"Low-profile UN chief struggles as diplomatic peacemaker; Ban is humbled in efforts to prod foreign leaders" by Colum Lynch, Washington Post | October 6, 2008
UNITED NATIONS - In the days after Georgian and Russian troops marched into the separatist province of South Ossetia, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon frantically telephoned key leaders and offered the United Nations' diplomatic help in stemming further violence. But Russian President Dmitry Medvedev refused to take his calls for more than a week, say senior US and UN officials.
The rebuff highlighted Russia's displeasure with Ban, who had clashed with Moscow over Kosovo's independence drive and riled it again by issuing a statement supporting the territorial integrity of Georgia, a nation Russia intended to carve up. It also provided another example of the humbling struggles of the world's top diplomat to prod foreign leaders to embrace peace.
After more than 20 months in office, Ban is straining to make his mark as a diplomatic peacemaker as his efforts to stem bloodshed in Sudan's Darfur region have faltered and Burma's political players refuse to meet with his special envoy. The United Nations has been relegated to a supporting role in many of the world's diplomatic flare-ups, including in Kenya and Zimbabwe.
Pushing the AGENDA quite hard today, 'eh, Zionist War Daily!
Ban convened a meeting of key foreign ministers recently on the sidelines of the General Assembly session to energize efforts to press Burma's generals to democratize the country and to secure the release of nearly 2,000 political prisoners, including Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
Also see: Aung San Suu Kyi is Burmese for CIA
But the meeting, which Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice did not attend, produced no breakthrough, and Ban canceled plans to speak to the media. Instead Ban issued a statement, pressing Burma to release the prisoners.
But it is the Russians who insulted Ban, according to the agenda-pushing Zionist War Daily! Pfffffffttt!
Robert Orr, a special adviser to Ban, and other UN officials say Ban has had far greater success in prodding governments on some long-term threats such as climate change and the global food and energy crises and in helping to secure billions of dollars in commitments to fight poverty during the world's worst financial crisis in a generation.
What horse shit!! Yeah, here are his "successes":
Boston Globe Admits Global Cooling... in a Brief!
Of course, I am NO LONGER SURPRISED that the U.N is a GLOBALIST FRONT!
And to think I once believed in them!!!!
They say his persistence paid off after Tropical Cyclone Nargis in May, when he traveled to Yangon, the former Burmese capital, to persuade Than Shwe to pry open the borders for relief workers.
But Ban has been pushed into the background in Africa, where local powers have taken the lead in solving regional problems. South Africa effectively blocked a US and British initiative to grant the UN a more central role in mediating an end to an election crisis in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe cracked down on opposition leaders to prevent his more popular rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, from winning the election.
At the height of the crisis, Mugabe told Ban to butt out of his country's affairs and accused him of carrying water for the region's formal colonial power. But Mugabe ultimately agreed to a compromise that gave the UN a supporting role in a diplomatic process led by his friend Thabo Mbeki, who was South Africa's president at the time.
Ban's low-profile diplomatic style contrasts with the activism of his predecessor, Kofi Annan, a Ghanaian national who sought to expand the authority of the office.
At a similar stage in his tenure, Annan had carried out a high-profile trip to Baghdad, where he temporarily averted a US-led air war by persuading Saddam Hussein to open his presidential palaces to UN inspectors. That peace was short-lived, and the United States and Britain launched Operation Desert Fox, a four-day air assault against Iraq, several months later in 1998.
A BILL CLINTON WAR CRIME because Saddam did NOT have WMD by that time.
Of course, USraeli war crimes are NOT NOTED in the ZIONIST WAR DAILIES!!!!
In Darfur, Ban has been in control, cultivating a relationship with Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir to help secure support for a UN-African Union peacekeeping mission and a political settlement. But fighting has resumed, political talks have stalled, and the peacekeepers' deployment is months behind schedule.
Consorting with a WAR CRIMINAL, Mr. Ban?
Ah, it wouldn't be the first time for the West in Africa:
Memory Hole: Our Ally in Africa
Memory Hole: Our Man in Africa
Short-Term Memory Hole: Zimbabwe
U.S. Backs African War Criminal
The setbacks have begun to take a toll on Ban, who lashed out at his senior advisers during a retreat in Turin, Italy, for failing to make the organization more responsive to the challenges of the day. "Our job is to change the UN - and through it, the world," Ban told his staff members last month. "This is the big picture. I am frustrated by our failure, so often, to see it." --more--"
Awww, poor globalist shitter!
