Archivado en: internacional | escrito por goleech | 08/27/2005 | 12:39

Con la filtración de un borrador publicado en The Washington Post y The Independent, los Estados Unidos, mediante su embajador John Bolton, pretenden tomar el control total de Naciones Unidas. Al carajo se van los acuerdos en temas como el combate a la pobreza, el portocolo de Kyoto y en general el sentido de multilateralismo.

The amendments are spelt out in a 32-page US version, first reported by the Washington Post and acquired yesterday by The Independent. The document is littered with deletions and exclusions. Most strikingly, the changes eliminate all specific reference to the so-called Millennium Development Goals, accepted by all countries at the last major UN summit in 2000, including the United States.

The Americans are also seeking virtually to remove all references to the Kyoto treaty and the battle against global warming. They are striking out mention of the disputed International Criminal Court and drawing a red line through any suggestion that the nuclear powers should dismantle their arsenals. Instead, the US is seeking to add emphasis to passages on fighting terrorism and spreading democracy.

The Independent, 27 de agosto de 2005

Estados Unidos quiere seguir gozando de la impunidad que actualmente goza. Simplemente, para darnos una idea, en el borrador estadounidense la Corte Internacional de Justicia desaparece. Claro, el primer país que debería estar en el banquillo de los acusados por crímenes de guerra es precisamente EUA. The Independent compara lo que la ONU quiere, y lo que EUA desea:

International Criminal Court

What the UN wants

Commitment to end impunity for the most serious violations of international humanitarian law, including genocide, by co-operating with the International Criminal Court

What the US wants

No reference to International Criminal Court, whose statutes the Bush administration controversially withdrew from in 2002

The likely outcome

No agreement. America is out in the cold on this one, although the commitment of a number of other states to the court has been wavering under US pressure.

Pero el mundo entero sabía lo que el presidente George Bush apostaba al nombrar a Bolton como embajador (ojo, no ha sido ratificado por el Senado). Noam Chomsky en un artículo de este verano:

Recently, Condoleezza Rice praised Jeane Kirkpatrick as an exemplary model when she announced the appointment of John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton has been clear and forthright in expressing his attitude toward the United Nations: “There is no United Nations,” he said. “When the United States leads, the United Nations will follow. When it suits our interests to do so, we will do so. When it does not suit our interests, we will not.” That position is at the extreme of a rather narrow elite consensus, which is opposed by the overwhelming majority of the public. Public support for the UN is so strong that a majority even thinks that the United States should give up the Security Council veto and accept majority decisions. But again, the democratic deficit prevails.

Boston Review, verano 2005

En Democracy Now! un veterano reportero de Naciones Unidas, Ian Williams decía "... The question is just how much negotiation you can do with John Bolton, because John Bolton is to diplomacy what Jack the Ripper was to surgery".

¿Quién podrá detener el boicot estadounidense?

(Sr. John Bolton, destructor de la ONU)

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