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Friday, September 19, 2008

UN criticism irks US envoy

The US's UN Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad has scolded the new president of the UN General Assembly over his recent anti-US comments. Khalilzad told Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann of Nicaragua, the new chair of the 192-member assembly that his role was "to facilitate the discussions, follow the rules, to do things that make this organization work and bring people together." Tuesday, d'Escoto opened the General Assembly's 63rd session with a veiled but stinging attack on the United States. "It makes no sense to wage wars of aggression that kills hundreds of thousands of people with the purported aim of supporting democracy, while at the same time using every imaginable means and pretexts to prevent a process to democratize the United Nations itself," he told delegates. "We will continue to stress that the decentralization which the United Nations so urgently needs will entail decentralizing the power accumulated in a small group of states," d'Escoto added.

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