The USA ambassador to the UN complains about Annan and Palestine

Bolton is one of the pro Israeli Neo Cons that took over the USA government back in 2000 to start the current Israeli World Domination plans. He was snuck into the UN by Bush while Congress was on recess. Every action he takes if for the state of Israel. He does not work for the USA, though his paycheck is from the USA.


US Ambassador John Bolton had protested the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s attending the latest International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, held last November 29, and complained about an annual UN event where a map of pre-1948 Palestine was displayed, Reuters reported on Saturday.

“It was entirely inappropriate for this map to be used. It can be misconstrued to suggest that the United Nations tacitly supports the abolition of the state of Israel,” Reuters quoted Bolton as saying.

“Given that we now have a world leader pursuing nuclear weapons who is calling for the state of Israel to be 'wiped off the map,' the issue has even greater salience,” he said in a January 3 letter, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters on Friday. The letter was first reported in the New York Sun.

Bolton was referring to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s latest anti-Israel statements, who said in October the Jewish state should be “wiped off the map.”

Annan at the time expressed dismay about the Iranian leader's comment and later canceled a planned trip to Tehran.

Bolton's letter complained about the symbolism of Annan attending the latest International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on November 29, along with General Assembly President Jan Eliasson and Russian Ambassador Andrei Denisov, the Security Council president for November.

He questioned whether the United Nations could promote the event when US law prohibits funding such events. Washington's dues cover about a quarter of the regular UN budget.

Annan's office was preparing a response to the letter, UN chief spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.

He said the secretary-general was grateful that Bolton and others had brought the matter to his attention and had raised the matter of the map with the General Assembly's Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, which stages the annual event.

It was not Annan but the committee that decided in 1981 to display the pre-1948 map at the annual event, he said.

“This gives a very unfortunate impression that the United Nations favors replacing Israel by a single Palestinian state, which is not the case,” he said, stressing that Annan regularly describes Israel as a full UN member.

The United Nations is a member of the Quartet of international mediators pursuing a road map to Middle East peace along with the United States, European Union and Russia.

 

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