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UN chief removed Saudi Arabia from blacklist of human rights abusers after Saudis threatened to cut UN funding

Jun 10, 2016 10:14 am By Robert Spencer

A clear admission that the UN is thoroughly compromised and sold out to interests that are at clear variance with its (long forgotten) stated mission. If we had an administration in Washington that cared about American interests, the US, not the Saudis, would be cutting funding for the UN.

Also: what else have the Saudis bought? A full revelation of their paid-for lackeys among the American political media elites would be eye-opening, but is unlikely to be forthcoming.

Ban-Ki-Moon

“U.N. Chief Says He Went Soft on Saudi Arabia and Allies to Avoid Aid Cut,” by Colum Lynch, Foreign Policy, June 9, 2016 (thanks to John):

Ban Ki-moon, the U.N. secretary-general, confirmed Thursday he was essentially blackmailed into removing the Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen from a U.N. blacklist of countries, rebel movements, and terrorist groups that have killed, maimed, or otherwise abused children in conflict.

The move follows Foreign Policy’s exclusive report Tuesday that Saudi Arabia privately threatened to break relations with the United Nations and cut hundreds of millions of dollars in humanitarian and counterterrorism funds if it was not taken off the list. In response to the threat, Ban agreed Monday to remove Saudi Arabia and its allies from the blacklist, pending a joint review of the matter by the U.N. and representatives of the Saudi-led coalition.

The decision sparked sharp criticism from human rights advocates, who accused the U.N. chief of capitulating to pressure.

But Ban hit back publicly on Thursday, telling reporters he continues to stand by the report’s finding that the Saudi-led coalition is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Yemeni children. Though he didn’t single out Saudi Arabia by name, Ban told reporters in a prepared statement that unnamed countries threatened to cut off financial support for vital U.N. programs if Saudi Arabia and its allies were not removed from the list.

U.N. officials said Ban received calls of protest from senior officials from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and other close Saudi allies who demanded the stigma be lifted.

Privately, U.N.-based officials said senior Saudi representatives, including Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, threatened to cut funding to such vital programs as those for displaced Palestinians and destitute Yemenis. They also said Riyadh raised the specter that other Arab nations, principally the oil-rich Persian Gulf states, would also follow suit, risking billions of dollars in humanitarian aid commitments….

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  1. Angemon says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 10:36 am

    A clear admission that the UN is thoroughly compromised and sold out to interests that are at clear variance with its (long forgotten) stated mission. If we had an administration in Washington that cared about American interests, the US, not the Saudis, would be cutting funding for the UN.

    All true.

    • SBJ says

      Jun 10, 2016 at 1:01 pm

      The US has boots on the ground in Yemen. They too are guilty of the destruction of Yemen and the genocide of it’s people.

      That American president ‘Obama’ has bombed 7 countries under his term…and he’s not done yet. How he earned a Nobel Peace Prize is beyond me.

    • Lia says

      Jun 11, 2016 at 4:11 am

      High time and past time the USA defunded the UN and started renting out or sold the green tower for a market-related price to start paying that nearly $20 T debt.

      • Bob says

        Jun 11, 2016 at 7:38 am

        And the UN closed down, as an expensive, toothless organisation long since sold out to arab interests!

    • Mark Swan says

      Jun 12, 2016 at 10:19 am

      Here is some interesting reading on the UN

      http://www.conservativeusa.net/UN100ways.htm

  2. Phil Horaia says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 10:42 am

    What a disgrace! It’s clear that the UN is in thrall to the Saudis. So they are in effect turning a blind eye to their brutality and it could be argued SUPPORTING it. The UN is of little or no significance today, much like its predecessor the League of Nations, and were it to go the same way, it would make little or no difference.

    • SBJ says

      Jun 10, 2016 at 1:02 pm

      The Saudis sit on the Human Rights council of the UN. That should make one pause and think.

      • Bridgette says

        Jun 10, 2016 at 8:31 pm

        So human rights now means chopping off heads, beating foreign workers, raping kids and blackmail. Ok, now I got it.

  3. jayell says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 10:49 am

    Well, THAT says someth, ing about the moral integrity of the UN, doesn”t it? Perhaps if we citizens of the UK actually have the guts to tell the EU to go away and play games we can do the same with this other motley crew.

    • Georg says

      Jun 10, 2016 at 8:38 pm

      U.N. confrontation with KSA ends in battered wife syndrome… fitting.

  4. Ciudadano says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 10:53 am

    It amazes me the unconditional support western governments provide to Saudi Arabia. One of the few things conservatives and liberals agree on is that Arabia Saudi and Whabbism are evil. Event NYT has published several editorials criticizing Saudi Arabia evil influence all over the world, its financing of radical madrasas where people are radicalized. Commenters in NYT’ articles about SA are very critical of USA support to SA, they almost sound like JW readers.

    The news blackout regarding Yemen war is also very telling. Every single day there are news about the war in Siria, but rarely there are news about the war in Yemen.

    has SA bought every single politician in the west?

  5. Katowice says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 11:20 am

    It’s quite amusing to watch the recent discomfort, muted as it may be, on the left about the UN. At least among the ones with remaining affection for humanity and conscience; a breed rare but not quite extinct. That cliché “drip, drip, drip” is there indeed for anyone to see. Anyone, of course, who goes looking for it. Strange how sexual abuse of refugees—that’s legitimate refugees being systematically exploited by UN personnel and not, as I feel a need to qualify, the current trend of organised muhajiroun predation on Europeans—doesn’t seem to interest much of the media. I’m not one for contemplating conspiracies, so I’ll just chalk this up to simple economic interest: normal Western citizens have been conditioned not to care about the UN, so it’s unwise to waste time on it. Fair enough.

    This is, of course, nothing new for us of the right-leaning persuasion, but it is nice to extend a belated welcome to the UN outrage party to our ever avant-garde and “progressive” friends on the left. I’m sure there’s some postmodern analysis that can explain how you were ahead of us the whole time, so don’t feel too inadequate. Skepticism of internationalism and NGOs until proven otherwise has been empirically demonstrated to be a good idea if you like liberty and democracy. And what better example than this? It’s a concept as old as time: a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. International Affairs 101, fellows: An international organisation is destined to follow the will of the most cretinous and worthless backwater given control of a financial pressure point. Due to decades of cowardly inaction and collusion, the degenerate regimes of the Gulf have been given control over the world economy and thus a great portion of international “law”. If you don’t like it, well, that’s just too bad unless you also enjoy living pre-industrially. Now bow and shut up, or you’re an islamophobe.

    As the last three decades of UN activity have made obvious to anyone paying attention, the Anglophone West should be hightailing it out of the UN without delay. There’s simply no principle in the thing, at least nothing worth associating yourself with.

  6. mortimer says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 11:39 am

    How many ‘paid-for lackeys’ does Saudi Arabia have in the West? How many politicians, journalists, academics, editors, and other influential Westerners are on the jihad payroll?

    Hundreds? Thousands?

    The Saudis are paying billions to give themselves the go-ahead for genocide against Shi’ites.

    • Christianblood says

      Jun 10, 2016 at 11:58 am

      Thanks to the support of America and the West, the Evil House of Saud is now running the world.

      • dsinc says

        Jun 10, 2016 at 2:29 pm

        Follow the money

    • Jenny H says

      Jun 11, 2016 at 6:57 am

      Isn’t Saudi Arabia going broke? One concern for its future must surely be the dependence of the locals on the skills, energy and creativity of foreigners.

  7. linnte says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 12:32 pm

    They have forgotten their first love. The UN and the EU and NATO need to go away! What GOID are they doing?

    • linnte says

      Jun 10, 2016 at 12:38 pm

      Good not goid!

    • SBJ says

      Jun 10, 2016 at 1:13 pm

      My sentiments exactly.

      • Bob says

        Jun 11, 2016 at 7:42 am

        And mine!!

  8. mortimer says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 1:32 pm

    It’s blackmail.

  9. Guest says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 1:43 pm

    We don’t need Saudi Arabia! We don’t need their oil and we don’t need their money.

  10. Alexander the Grape says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 1:44 pm

    Horray, it’s public and open and clear-cut. No democratic country can any longer sit with these bribing, blackmailing, lying bigots. The UN must be abandoned now by all countries that value truth and freedom.

    Just watch the exodus. It must have started already. What? It has not started already???

  11. Ciudadano says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 3:31 pm

    SA got away with the oil embargo
    SA gets away with spreading salafidm and wahhabism
    SA gets away with financing and helping terrorism
    SA gets away with terrible human rigths violations
    SA gets away with non democratic despotic confesional goverment
    SA gets away with war in Yemen
    SA tries to bankrupt shell oil producers
    SA gets away with threats of economic war against USA
    SA gets away with a lot of thing I ignore

    How come SA is chair of UN Human Rigths Council?
    How come SA donations are accepted by well kwon politicians’ foundations?
    How come SA is allowed to build madrassas and mosques all over the world?

    • linnte says

      Jun 10, 2016 at 4:53 pm

      And you know it has to be the Saudis who want the last word at “Ground Zero” in NY! Financing the Islamic museum to be built there. The ULTIMATE most perverted slap in the face of the dignity and honor of those who died that day. I bet it is their money that puts that museum there!

  12. Nigel GFF says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 5:46 pm

    Soon we’ll see a grand re-opening of that talking shop. A house of bean counting, blinkered fools.
    The flags will dip. ‘Under new management’, beneath the crescent moon. A new, greener UN.

    The Ummah Neophytes. Beholding to none – except ‘Big Al’.

  13. Bridgette says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 8:42 pm

    Let them sell their own souls not ours. We must remove the UN and stop funding and aiding these barbaric countries. Trump is right – “idiots are running this world”.

  14. SuchindranathAiyerS says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 12:19 am

    As we know the Tent of Saud was dropping banned cluster bombs supplied by Britain (whose heir not so apparent to the throne was caught dancing around a fire under the moon on the Saudi Desert in his night gown selling arms).

    • linnte says

      Jun 11, 2016 at 12:23 am

      I didn’t know Muslims sold arms. I know they chop off heads but do they sell those too? How about feet? Sorry just couldn’t resist hahahahahahaha!

      • Champ says

        Jun 11, 2016 at 2:11 am

        😀 😀

  15. Alexander the Grape says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 1:55 am

    Nice one, Linnte. guffaw, guffaw.

    • linnte says

      Jun 11, 2016 at 1:58 am

      Just had to be silly. It’s all so depressing! Hahahaha!

  16. Manuele says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 2:29 am

    IF THAT IS NOT CORRUPTION BAN KI MOON, WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT BEHAVIOUR OF YOURS. IT IS CERTAINLY TRUE, MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL. I SAY THAT THE RICH MUSLIM ARABS HE GOT BAN KI MOON AND THE UNITED NATIONS BY THE BALLS. THIS IS WHY THERE HAS BEEN SO MUCH CRAP GOING ON WITH THE UNITED NATIONS. IT SEEMS THE THE UNITED NATIONS IS TAKEN OVER BY THE MUSLIMS THE SAME WAY IS THE EUROPEAN UNION.

    • linnte says

      Jun 11, 2016 at 2:46 am

      Scripture says the LOVE of money is the root of all evil. It is not that money is evil, it is lusting after more, not sharing or being charitable, spending unwisely and spending on bad things. ?

  17. mr says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 2:50 am

    and here we have it, the UN has been compromised, which again shows massive corruption, not only with the UN, but EU, two of the most corrupt organisations in the world that should have been shut down years ago

  18. Benedict says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 4:14 am

    He should not have backed down. Should have stood his ground and resigned from the post. No wonder the UN is pro Arab anti Semitic and anti Christian.

    • Mark Swan says

      Jun 12, 2016 at 8:07 am

      You Got That Right Benedict

    • Mark Swan says

      Jun 12, 2016 at 10:16 am

      Benedict, You might want to read the link I gave to Creole Gumbo, below here.

      http://www.conservativeusa.net/UN100ways.htm

  19. Lia says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 4:14 am

    But very blackmailable …

  20. Creole Gumbo says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 5:40 am

    The US should have withdrawn from the UN years ago.

    Does anyone out there know of any movement to do so?
    Any Congressman or Senator who is proposing withdrawal?
    Any citizen groups?

    • Mark Swan says

      Jun 12, 2016 at 10:10 am

      Creole Gumbo—Here is something to get You started.

      http://www.conservativeusa.net/UN100ways.htm

  21. steve says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 9:18 am

    Ban-Ki Moon scumdog millionaire,

  22. DockyWocky says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 10:41 am

    This is a slap in the face by the UN.

    Best the USA hand in our resignation, give them 30 days to get out of New York City, and the U.S. of A., and have a celebratory ireworks display directed at them as they leave.

  23. Myxlplik says

    Jun 12, 2016 at 2:08 am

    How much would the UN sell Ban Ki-moon for, if the Saudis wanted to behead him for being a general nuisance against Islam,

  24. umbra says

    Jun 12, 2016 at 6:00 am

    This is just another man-ki-boon moment.

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