Archivado en: internacional | escrito por goleech | 06/17/2005 | 15:42

El Congreso de los Estados Unidos, de mayoría Republicana, aprobó reducir a la mitad la ayuda financiera de su gobierno a las Naciones Unidas a menos que se reforme. Actualmente el gobierno de Bush aporta USD$440 millones anualmente.

De no cumplir con las reformas, a la medida de los Estados Unidos, el Congreso amenaza a la ONU con negar el apoyo de sus misiones de paz.

AP informa de las inconformidades de los congresistas republicanos con respecto a la situación actual en Naciones Unidas, y de sus exigencias en torno a su reforma:

"Far from promoting justice and respect for international law, the United Nations has become one of the world's greatest apologists for tyranny and terror," said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. "The U.N.'s corruption is so breathtaking in its scope as to be almost universal."

Over two days of debate, speakers slammed the U.N. for what they said was its wasteful bureaucracy, its anti-America, anti-Israel biases, its seating of tyrannical governments on the U.N. Commission on Human Rights and scandals involving the sexual misconduct of peacekeepers and alleged corruption in the oil-for-food program for Iraq.

The House approved some two dozen amendments, all offered by Republicans, that pinpointed further ways to improve the U.N. Among them were directions to suspend member states engaged in crimes against humanity, waive immunity for U.N. officials in connection with the oil-for-food program and make Iran ineligible to receive nuclear material from International Atomic Energy Agency members until it is in full compliance with the IAEA.

Publicado en The Washington Post, 17 de junio de 2005

Asumiendo una postura Chomskyana, la exigencia de suspender a miembros involucrados con "crímenes de lesa humanidad" resulta contradictoria (¿Se acuerdan de Centroamérica en los 80's? ¿Iraq mismo?)

La decisión republicana ha despertado voces de los demócratas y personajes de la diplomacia estadounidense:

Eight former U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations, including Madeleine Albright and Jeane Kirkpatrick, also weighed in, telling lawmakers in a letter this week that withholding of dues would "create resentment, build animosity and actually strengthen opponents of reform."

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