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04/30/2004 Archived Entry: "PM hopes to extricate Canada from UN box"

Posted by steve @ 02:42 PM EST [Link]

STRONG WORDS FROM BOTH A CANADIAN AND A LIBERAL: Canadian PM Paul Martin yesterday stated that the UN is a failure, a shocking concept coming from a Canadian politician.

With yesterday's landmark speech, Paul Martin tacitly acknowledged what Canada's foreign policy establishment has refused to accept for decades: that the United Nations is a failure, for which there is no solution.

The Prime Minister's proposed alternative is a new international body, the G-20 summit of world leaders, representative of North and South, developed and developing, rich and poor: a working group unfettered by the UN's bureaucracy and its anachronistic Security Council.

Of course, what Mr. Martin likely wants is a world body even more invasive in a nation's sovereign affairs.

Read on.