Skip to main content

[AfricaWatch] UN honors Uganda and Israel for invasion, war, and occupation

 


UN honors Uganda and Israel for invasion, war, and occupation

Submitted by Ann Garrison on Sun, 06/22/2014 - 00:09

 

KPFA Evening News, 06.14.2014

Last week the UN General Assembly elected Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa to be its president for the next year. This week the UN Special Political and Decolonization Committee elected Israel's representative to be its vice chair.  

Transcript: 
 
KPFA Evening News Anchor Sharon Sobotta: The territorial integrity of sovereign nations is a founding principle of the United Nations. Many have remarked, however, that UN honors recently bestowed onUganda's Sam Kutesa, UN General Assembly PresidentUganda, and then Israel, make it hard to believe that the UN is seriously committed to its own ideals. 
 
KPFA/Ann Garrison:  Last week, the United Nations General Assembly elected Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa to serve as its president for the next year, even though Uganda has invaded Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan, in the past 25 years, starting wars that left millions of people dead. 
 
Here's what Ugandan American Black Star News Editor Milton Alliimade had to say about Kutesa's candidacy, earlier this year on KPFA's Morning Mix:
 
Milton Allimadi: As many listeners know, Uganda, at this time, is the least deserving country to have its candidate become President of the General Assembly. In addition to the President signing the detestable anti-gay law on February 24, Uganda has committed numerous violations of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Congo and Rwanda, and most recently South Sudan. And of course, the United Nation is based on that cardinal principal of respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty. Now, how can a country, whose army has violated this cardinal principle so many times, then have its Foreign Affairs Minister become president of the UN General Assembly? It's preposterous actually.
 
KPFA: Three days ago, on June 18th, the UN General Assembly's Special Political and Decolonization Committee elected Israel's representative Mordehai Amihai to serve as its vice chair. Amihai had been nominated by the Group of Western European Nations and other UN member states - others meaning the U.S., Canada, Australia, Greenland, New Zealand, and several other island nations. 
 
According to UN minutes, Israel's representative received 74 of 76 votes cast, despite strong opposition from the Arab Group of UN member states."
Qatar's representative, speaking on behalf of the Arab states, described Israel as a "State that violated the United Nations Charter and international law," and said that "because its track record was rife with murder and its occupation had lasted more than 66 years, Israel was not qualified to preside over questions pertaining to Palestinian refugees, peacekeeping and the investigation of its own illegal practices."
 
In Berkeley, for Pacifica, KPFA Radio, I'm Ann Garrison.  
 
Tags: 
Uganda
Sam Kutesa
Israel
Mordehai Amihai
United Nations
General Assembly

__._,_.___
Posted by: Nzinink <nzinink@yahoo.com>
Reply via web post • Reply to sender • Reply to group • Start a New Topic • Messages in this topic (1)
----------------------------------------------------------
The Voice of the Poor, the Weak and Powerless.
More News:http://changingafrica.blogspot.co.uk/
-----------------------------------------------------------
Post message:  AfricaWatch@yahoogroups.com
Subscribe: AfricaWatch-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Unsubscribe: AfricaWatch-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
List owner: AfricaWatch-owner@yahoogroups.com
__________________________________________________________________

Please consider the environment before printing this email or any attachments.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

.

__,_._,___

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

[RwandaLibre] Rwanda : 19 ans après les massacres de Kibeho restent toujours impunis

  http://www.fdu-rwanda.com/ Rwanda : 19 ans après les massacres de Kibeho restent toujours impunis avril 22, 2014     Ce 22 avril 2014 est un triste anniversaire. Souvenons-nous, en effet, c'est à cette date que plus de 8'000 réfugiés dans le camp de Kibeho furent tués à l'arme lourde et aux lance-roquettes des soldats du Front Patriotique Rwandais. Des dizaines de milliers de rescapés du camp qui ont tenté ensuite de s'échapper ont été froidement abattus sur leur chemin de retour, les uns, jetés dans des fosses communes, d'autres, jonchés tout le long des routes, d'autres enfin, tout simplement disparus, sans la moindre trace.   Le camp de réfugiés de Kibeho abritait près de 200000 personnes. Que l'on se rappelle, c'est peu avant le 17 avril 1995 que, sous le prétexte fallacieux de démantèlement de prétendus arsenaux d'armes, six bataillons de l'armée du FPR (2000 hommes) et de la...
Post a Comment
Read more

[AfricaRealities.com] Rwanda court hears case to block third presidential term

  Wednesday's supreme court case was quickly adjourned after the lawyer for the Democratic Green Party failed to appear. One party official told Reuters lawyers had been fearful about taking on the case.  The court panel of nine judges led by Chief Justice Sam Rugege adjourned and set the next hearing for July 29. http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0PI11X20150708?irpc=932 Email Facebook Twitter By Clement Uwiringiyimana KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwanda's main opposition party opened a case in the Supreme Court on Wednesday seeking to prevent constitutional change that would allow President Paul Kagame to run for a third term seven-year in office. The debate about term limits and challenges to veteran leaders has flared in several places in Africa. The United States and other Western nations have been pressing African leaders to stick to constitutional rules on presidential terms. Wednesday's supreme court case was quickly adjourned...
Post a Comment
Read more

[AfricaWatch] Rwanda 2014: 24 years after the Ugandan invasion

  http://sfbayview.com/2014/rwanda-2014-24-years-after-the-ugandan-invasion/#.U1cA6yfqdSQ.facebook Rwanda 2014: 24 years after the Ugandan invasion April 17, 2014 4 by  Ann Garrison KPFA Evening News, broadcast April 13, 2014 Claude Gatebuke survived the mass killing in Rwanda and founded the African Great Lakes Action Network (AGLAN) to promote truth and reconciliation in Rwanda and the rest of the Great Lakes Region of Africa. Twenty-four years after the Ugandan invasion of Rwanda in October 1990, both the history of the four-year war that followed and realities of life on the ground in Rwanda today are fiercely disputed. Claude Gatebuke survived the violence and founded the African Great Lakes Action Network (AGLAN) to promote truth and reconciliation in Rwanda and the rest of the Great Lakes Region of Africa. Transcript KPFA Evening News Anchor Anthony Fest : The United Nations commemorated the mass killing that came to be known ...
Post a Comment
Read more

-“The enemies of Freedom do not argue ; they shout and they shoot.”

-“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.”

-“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

-“I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.”

IRIN - Great Lakes

Loading...

UN News Centre - Africa

Loading...