A Report by U.S., Criticizing U.N., Urges Reforms

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A Congressionally mandated panel will report this week that the United Nations suffers from poor management, "dismal" staff morale and lack of accountability and professional ethics but will acknowledge the broad changes proposed for the organization by Secretary General Kofi Annan and urge the United States to support them.

Among its recommendations, the panel says the United Nations should put in place corporate style oversight bodies and personnel standards to improve performance. It also calls on the United Nations to create a rapid reaction capability from its member states' armed forces to prevent genocide, mass killing and sustained major human rights violations before they occur.

Newt Gingrich, a Republican former speaker of the House of Representatives, and George J. Mitchell, a Democratic former majority Senate leader, are co-chairmen of the bipartisan task force. It includes former diplomats, military and intelligence officials and leaders of conservative and liberal political institutes.

It was created by Congress in December to suggest measures to make the United Nations more effective and ways in which the United States can spur needed changes. The United States is the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget. The Task Force on the United Nations made a copy of its 174-page report available to The New York Times on Sunday. It is scheduled to be made public in Washington on Wednesday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/13/politics/13nations.html?hp&ex=1118635200&en=d802b882efef3379&ei=5094&partner=homepage

and what would these people know about accountability

[marmar]

1. Ain't that a ..tch! The United STATES...

suffers from poor management, "dismal" citizens' morale, a lack of accountability and ANY ethics. That report takes some brass ones!

[BillZBubb]

2. Maybe Annan can hold a news conference.

He can say "Uh, uh, ah, uh, those Americans hate the uh UN. They hate our freeeeeedom. They're dis-a-semblers--that means they lie".

[ngGale]

3. Who are we to criticize anybody?...

Suppose Bolton could fix this. :evilgrin:

[shanti]

4. newt gingrich is involved in this?

that's it, i need read no further.

[twenty4blackbirds]

5. "Reformed UN deploys Rapid Reaction Force to USA...

...to prevent sustained major human rights violations before they occur."

It's possible. It says so, right there:

United Nations to create a rapid reaction capability from its member states' armed forces to prevent <snip> sustained major human rights violations before they occur.