CAPITOL HILL BRIEFINGUnited Nations Reform: Beyond the Blame GameTue Sep 13, 2005 20:5664.140.158.94
United Nations Reform: Beyond the Blame Game
CAPITOL HILL BRIEFING
Monday, September 26, 2005
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Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute
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On the heels of the United Nations summit, controversies and obstacles surrounding UN reform will remain. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has put forward an ambitious slate of reform issues—including foreign aid, potential changes to the UN Security Council, humanitarian intervention and human rights, a permanent peacekeeping force, and progress on an approach to terrorism. Notwithstanding Annan’s enthusiasm for reform, efforts to change the world body have proved difficult.
Accusations of obstructionism have been made against on US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, a corrupt UN bureaucracy, and a variety of other sources. As a result, the United Nations is in disarray at a time when it could potentially be a useful forum for helping to resolve a number of pressing international issues.
Why have UN reform efforts largely failed? What are America’s interests in UN reform, and what should be done to advance them? Can the United Nations be a useful vehicle for advancing America’s interests, or has it degenerated into a hopelessly corrupt and ineffectual talking society?
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Hu to meet Bush at UN summit today
China Daily, China - 1 hour ago
By Hu Xiao (China Daily). President Hu Jintao is expected to meet his US counterpart George W. Bush today in New York before they attend the UN summit. ...
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Bush will raise Iran nuke concerns at UN
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- President Bush Tuesday called Iran's suspected pursuit of nuclear weapons a "grave concern" and said he would raise the issue at the United Nations.
Iran, as other nations, had the right to pursue civilian nuclear power, but there had to be safeguards and guidelines so the technology could not be put to use to enrich fuel for weapons, he said.
"This is a subject of grave concern, and it's something that we're spending a lot of time on in this administration," he said.
Bush was speaking at the White House prior to departing for New York and the opening session of the U.N. General Assembly.
Iran recently restarted its nuclear operations near Esfahan after U.S.-supported European efforts to offer aid in return for abandoning its nuclear programs foundered. Efforts by the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency also failed to get Iran to suspend the program, but it has not yet referred Iran to the U.N. Security Council for possible economic sanctions.
"There is still an IAEA process to go forward," Bush said. "And we will continue to work with our ambassador at the IAEA ... to press forward with a full disclosure about Iranian intentions so that then the Security Council can make a -- determine the right policy to go forward."
Iran has surreptitiously started a number of nuclear programs in violation of non-proliferation accords, but says it is only pursuing peaceful, civilian nuclear energy.
"It is very important for the world to understand that Iran with a nuclear weapon will be incredibly destabilizing. And, therefore, we must work together to prevent them from having the wherewithal to develop a nuclear weapon," Bush said.
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Roberts Vows to Judge Cases by Rule of Law
San Francisco Chronicle, United States - 16 hours ago
John Roberts says he would judge cases "according to the rule of law, without fear or favor" as the nation's 17th chief justice. ...
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"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out
of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me.
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Oath of Office - "...support and defend the Constitution..."
U.S. Federal and Military Oath of Office
" I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter.
So help me God.''
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No one is bound to obey an unConstitutional Act and no courts
are bound to enforce it. UnConstitutionality dates from the
time of its enactment, not from the decision so branding it."
[16th American Jurisprudence 2nd Edition Section 256, page 177]
*** IF NOT YOU, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN? IF NOT, WHY NOT? ***
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The due process clause of the Constitution,
however, demands reasonable specificity in criminal
prohibitions to enable a citizen to conform to the law.
As the Supreme Court amplified in Connally vs.
General Construction Co. (1926): "A statute which
either forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms
so vague that men and women of common
intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and
differ as to its application, violates the first essential
of due process of law."
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