More indulgence of the world’s worst dictatorships at the irrelevant United Nations. And on your taxpayer $£¥€, etc. Yet you’d think from the mainstream media’s coverage of this latest waste of paper from the UN that something truly significant had just happened:
Signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) have agreed to work towards a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Middle East.
The members, meeting at the UN in New York, called for a conference in 2012 attended by Middle Eastern states – including Iran – to establish the zone.
The unanimously agreed document also said that Israel should sign the NPT. US President Barack Obama backed the deal but said he was “strongly opposed” to Israel being singled out. The US says the reference could jeopardise efforts to persuade the Israelis to attend the 2012 talks.
The decision was crucial to the success of a month-long conference on strengthening the NPT, says the BBC’s United Nations correspondent Barbara Plett in New York.
The treaty is seen as the cornerstone of global disarmament efforts, she adds.
The 28-page final declaration was agreed following intense talks on the last day of a month-long conference.
The document calls for the United Nations secretary general to organise a meeting of Middle East states in 2012 to agree to the creation of a “zone free of nuclear weapons and all other weapons of mass destruction”.
“All eyes the world over are watching us,” said conference president Libran Cabactulan, of the Philippines, as the final text was approved.
Egypt’s Maged Abedelaziz, speaking for the Non-Aligned Movement of 118 developing nations, welcomed the decision, saying it was “an important step forward towards the realisation of the goals and objectives of the treaty”
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Sticking points
Diplomats discussing the proposals had continued talks late into the night on Thursday before resuming on Friday.
Diplomats discussing the proposals had continued talks late into the night on Thursday before resuming on Friday.
One of the sticking points involved Israel, a non-member of the NPT, which is widely believed to have nuclear weapons although it has never admitted to possessing them.
Arab states and Israel’s allies had to work hard to find agreement over wording for the proposed nuclear-weapons-free zone.
Correspondents say Arab nations want to put pressure on Israel to relinquish its undeclared nuclear arsenal. (What a surprise!)
Iran also made a late demand that the five recognised nuclear-armed nations agree to a timetable for negotiating a treaty to abolish their arsenals.
In the final document adopted, no specific timetable is set out but the five states commit to “accelerate concrete progress” towards reducing their nuclear arsenals and to report back on that in 2014.
Iran has faced repeated questions over its own nuclear programme, which the West believes is aimed at making weapons. Tehran insists it is solely designed to meet its energy needs.
Iran, a member of the NPT, says it will stick to its obligations under the treaty.
The NPT has encountered difficulty in coming up with the best method for monitoring suspect nuclear programmes in Iran and North Korea.
India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel – which are known or suspected to have nuclear weapons – are not signatories to the treaty. They are not covered by any NPT agreement.
The NPT conference meets every five years. The last review conference, in 2005, failed to adopt a consensus declaration.
The last line of the report says it all. Failed.
The United Nations, born of the most noble ideals and lofty aspirations is, frankly, useless. It has been overrun by the very forces of malevolence, corruption and evil that it was supposed to stand guard against.
The Human Rights Council is run by the world’s worst human rights abusers. Tin-pot dictatorships and banana republics cover up each others’ atrocities while their populations continue to suffer from oppression and abuse.
The UN and its nuclear inspection arm, the IAEA, has proven incapable of stopping the Iranians, Syrians, and North Koreans from developing nuclear weapon technology – and from mobilising it to threaten Israel (yes – all three are involved in this, directly or indirectly.
And speaking of Israel, it allowed the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC, a worldwide Muslim interest group) to commission the Goldstone Report, a fantasy of anti-Israel blood-libel authored by a hanging judge from the South African apartheid era; that was based almost entirely on evidence from Hamas.
Shia Terrorist organisation Hizballah, as a legitimised actor in the Lebanese government, effectively has a place on the UN Security Council.
Now just sit back and let that sink in for a moment.
But you don’t know much of this, because the media never tells you about it. Just why do the BBC and other large media organisations continue to puff up the output of this useless talking shop, funded by the West, but apparently run almost entirely for the benefit of third world tyrranies?
And does anyone really believe that the world’s biggest nuclear proliferators, the US and Russia, are ever going to give up their weapons?
All we ever seem to see is the kind of supine court reporting, as witnessed in the BBC’s article above – ascribing wholly undue importance and significance to a ‘treaty’ that will, in truth, have no effect on anything whatsoever.
It’s way past time for the media to end the hushed reverence and start to scrutinise for a change. Only then could we either begin to entertain the possibility of a United Nations that was actually worthy of the name; or realise that it really was time to call it a day.
[Source: BBC Online | Cartoon: Cox & Forkum]
