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Remarks by Ambassador Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, at the Security Council Stakeout
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Susan Rice chose to delude America once again, as she spoke to the press for the final time as President Obama's UN ambassador for the past four and a half years. As Iran nears the nuclear finish line, Rice said: "On issues as important as Iran...we have been able to find common ground." "The whole world is clear that Iran's violations are unacceptable." She also cast four years of unrelenting anti-Israel activity at the United Nations as a blip: "Once in a while, the inefficiencies...corruption...undermine the legitimacy of this institution."
Here's a snapshot of her actual record: (a) There has not been a binding Security Council sanctions resolution on Iran since June 2010. Despite Washington's numerous pleas, the Chinese reiterated this week that they were "not in favor of increased new pressure or sanctions against Iran." (b) The Palestinians ignored the President's personal appeal not to use the UN to upgrade their status unilaterally. With the U.S. voting against, "Palestine" became a UN non-member observer state. (c) Regardless of American views, UN jobs have been repeatedly filled by grossly inappropriate candidates. Iran is on the UN's top women's rights body. Both North Korea and Iran have served as President of the UN Conference on Disarmament. Richard Falk, the antisemitic, Boston-terror apologist, continues to hold the job of the UN's Israel "investigator." (d) The UN has made zero progress in agreeing to a definition of terrorism. The drafting of a comprehensive convention against terrorism is hopelessly deadlocked. (e) The UN held two more racist anti-racism conferences, "Durban II" in 2009 and "Durban III" in New York on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, over administration objections. (f) Every substantive U.S. proposal to reform the Israel-bashing UN Human Rights Council was thrown out by the General Assembly in June 2011. The U.S. was outnumbered 154 to 4. (g) In Syria, there are now over 100,000 deaths and yet UN investigators are waiting outside the country. (h) Humanitarian access to Sudan is still blocked, while the killing in Darfur goes on. Etc. Etc.