by stu » Mon 07 Mar 2005, 14:38:17
Apparently John Bolton is going to be named as the new UN ambassador.
http://www.iii.co.uk/news/?type=afxnews ... on=article
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'U')S President George W Bush will announce today that he has
picked the outspoken US under secretary of state for arms control, John Bolton,
to be ambassador to the United Nations, government officials said.
"Expect it to be announced later today," one of the officials said on condition
of anonymity.
Some Bolton Quotes.
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At a 1994 panel discussion sponsored by the World Federalist Association, Bolton claimed, "There's no such thing as the United Nations," saying that ''If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.''8.
During the July 2001 global U.N. conference on small arms and light weapons, Bolton told delegates that the United States was not only opposed to any agreement restricting civilian possession of small arms, it also didn't appreciate "the promotion of international advocacy activity by international or non-governmental organizations." Bolton 's delegation was accompanied by that distinguished American NGO the National Rifle Association. (7)
In 1998, when he was senior vice president of the American Enterprise Institute, Bolton described the International Criminal Court (ICC) as "a product of fuzzy-minded romanticism [that] is not just naïve, but dangerous." (6)
Bolton told the Wall Street Journal that signing the letter informing the U.N. that Washington was renouncing the Rome Treaty to create the ICC "was the happiest moment of my government service." (6)
Regarding efforts to add a verification proposal to the bioweapons convention, Bolton told colleagues in 2001, "It's dead, dead, dead, and I don't want it coming back from the dead." (6)