08-29-2006, 08:44 PM
Ok. It will soon be official. Sashi has no chance in hell now to get US approval after his "bring democracy" agenda!!! <!--emo&:thumbsup--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbup.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='thumbup.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Agencies | Washington
Suggesting a four-point plan to revamp the UN, India's nominee for the post of Secretary General Shashi Tharoor has said the greatest problem for the world body is that it does not have one big issue to deal with but a host of them clamouring for attention.
An international institution like the United Nations with "impressive achievements" and "haunting failures" has changed but needs to change further, he said in an article in the forthcoming issue of Newsweek International.
His reform proposal focusses on four priority areas:
(1)Making democracy a priority
(2)Bolster the ranks
(3)Prioritise and streamline
(4)Heal wounds.
He categorically mentioned, "there is no single greatest problem, rather, there are a dozen different ones each day clamouring for attention,".
"Some, like the crisis in Lebanon, the Palestinian situation and the nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea, are obvious and trying," he said, going on to talk about "problems without passports" -- issues like climate change, drug trafficking, human rights, terrorism, epidemic diseases, and refugee movements.
Tharoor, who is now a leading candidate to succeed Kofi Annan whose term expires at the end of the year, said finding solutions to these issues were beyond the ability of one nation or a group of countries and the key was "strengthening the capacities of both the United Nations and its members".
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Tharoor's four-point agenda for UN reformÂÂ
Agencies | Washington
Suggesting a four-point plan to revamp the UN, India's nominee for the post of Secretary General Shashi Tharoor has said the greatest problem for the world body is that it does not have one big issue to deal with but a host of them clamouring for attention.
An international institution like the United Nations with "impressive achievements" and "haunting failures" has changed but needs to change further, he said in an article in the forthcoming issue of Newsweek International.
His reform proposal focusses on four priority areas:
(1)Making democracy a priority
(2)Bolster the ranks
(3)Prioritise and streamline
(4)Heal wounds.
He categorically mentioned, "there is no single greatest problem, rather, there are a dozen different ones each day clamouring for attention,".
"Some, like the crisis in Lebanon, the Palestinian situation and the nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea, are obvious and trying," he said, going on to talk about "problems without passports" -- issues like climate change, drug trafficking, human rights, terrorism, epidemic diseases, and refugee movements.
Tharoor, who is now a leading candidate to succeed Kofi Annan whose term expires at the end of the year, said finding solutions to these issues were beyond the ability of one nation or a group of countries and the key was "strengthening the capacities of both the United Nations and its members".
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