Delegates: Pursue a Strengthened United Nations in Spite of John Bolton
A request to United Nations representatives to pursue reform regardless of John Bolton's potentially distruptive influence.
Trouble at the U.N.
The Bush Administration may try to disrupt progress at the U.N. for strengthening reform in sending John Bolton. Don't let it happen! Tell officials you support reform, and ask them to work toward it in spite of whatever shenanigans Bolton. Add your signature to the letter below.
"Dear United Nations Delegates,
We the undersigned, write with regret over the appointment of John Bolton as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. He does not represent our interests or wishes. Neither does he represent the elected representatives of the American public. Keeping in mind the September 60th anniversary summits promise for change and strengthening of the United Nations, we ask you to fulfill its promise regardless of what Bolton works to achieve or disrupt. Some worry that Boltons bellicose and undiplomatic approach and goals may distract from reform. This may in fact be the Bush administrations intent, so we urge you to keep heightened awareness of his motives and consciously work to better the U.N. in spite of any attempts he makes to disrupt or distract.
We suggest to you that John Bolton is surely out-of-sync with your goals and intents. Bolton has repeatedly made anti-U.N. sentiments clear in his many blunt and undiplomatic statements on the body which have garnered him notoriety among Americans who support the United Nations. ''The Secretariat building in New York has 38 stories, said Bolton once. If you lost 10 stories today, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.'1' In perhaps his most striking comment, he stated If I were redoing the Security Council today, I'd have one permanent member because that's the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world."2 Bolton has even gone so far as to say that there is no such thing as the United Nations. There is an international community that occasionally can be led by the only real power left in the world and that is the United States when it suits our interest and we can get others to go along.''3
Those who oppose Bolton are worried that John Bolton will not have the credibility to push U.N. reform by the United States. Theyre right he was appointed without the consent of the elected representatives of the American public, by a man who defied the will of the United Nations and implied that it would be irrelevant if it did not go along with the his administrations plans for war. One guest commentator on CNN pointed out that Bolton does carry the message of the Bush administration but he does not carry the message of the American people. Bush even ignored the petitions of career diplomats and senators of both political parties.
While it is sad that Bolton has been appointed to represent the United States at the U.N., we petition you to form consensus for reform regardless of him. Bolton has promised to strengthen the United Nations, when he in fact desires to destroy it. But our most important message is our request of you to adopt measures to strengthen the efficacy, legitimacy, and respect for this most important of world bodies. We ask you to work to make the U.N. more democratic and representative by adopting Security Council reform, and to make it more effective in fighting terrorism by adopting measures to make it illegal under international law. You have the ability to make the Bush administrations attempts to undermine the U.N. an opportunity for success, and leave a lasting legacy for the world."
Footnotes:
1 1994 Global Structures Convocation, New York, NY.
2 National Public Radio with Juan Williams, 2000.
3 1994 Global Structures Convocation, New York, NY.
Signera petitionenSignera petitionenThe Bush Administration may try to disrupt progress at the U.N. for strengthening reform in sending John Bolton. Don't let it happen! Tell officials you support reform, and ask them to work toward it in spite of whatever shenanigans Bolton. Add your signature to the letter below.
"Dear United Nations Delegates,
We the undersigned, write with regret over the appointment of John Bolton as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. He does not represent our interests or wishes. Neither does he represent the elected representatives of the American public. Keeping in mind the September 60th anniversary summits promise for change and strengthening of the United Nations, we ask you to fulfill its promise regardless of what Bolton works to achieve or disrupt. Some worry that Boltons bellicose and undiplomatic approach and goals may distract from reform. This may in fact be the Bush administrations intent, so we urge you to keep heightened awareness of his motives and consciously work to better the U.N. in spite of any attempts he makes to disrupt or distract.
We suggest to you that John Bolton is surely out-of-sync with your goals and intents. Bolton has repeatedly made anti-U.N. sentiments clear in his many blunt and undiplomatic statements on the body which have garnered him notoriety among Americans who support the United Nations. ''The Secretariat building in New York has 38 stories, said Bolton once. If you lost 10 stories today, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.'1' In perhaps his most striking comment, he stated If I were redoing the Security Council today, I'd have one permanent member because that's the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world."2 Bolton has even gone so far as to say that there is no such thing as the United Nations. There is an international community that occasionally can be led by the only real power left in the world and that is the United States when it suits our interest and we can get others to go along.''3
Those who oppose Bolton are worried that John Bolton will not have the credibility to push U.N. reform by the United States. Theyre right he was appointed without the consent of the elected representatives of the American public, by a man who defied the will of the United Nations and implied that it would be irrelevant if it did not go along with the his administrations plans for war. One guest commentator on CNN pointed out that Bolton does carry the message of the Bush administration but he does not carry the message of the American people. Bush even ignored the petitions of career diplomats and senators of both political parties.
While it is sad that Bolton has been appointed to represent the United States at the U.N., we petition you to form consensus for reform regardless of him. Bolton has promised to strengthen the United Nations, when he in fact desires to destroy it. But our most important message is our request of you to adopt measures to strengthen the efficacy, legitimacy, and respect for this most important of world bodies. We ask you to work to make the U.N. more democratic and representative by adopting Security Council reform, and to make it more effective in fighting terrorism by adopting measures to make it illegal under international law. You have the ability to make the Bush administrations attempts to undermine the U.N. an opportunity for success, and leave a lasting legacy for the world."
Footnotes:
1 1994 Global Structures Convocation, New York, NY.
2 National Public Radio with Juan Williams, 2000.
3 1994 Global Structures Convocation, New York, NY.
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