Brian4Liberty
06-25-2012, 05:36 PM
UN migration chief calls on EU to force member states to be multicultural
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2163969/UN-migration-chief-calls-EU-force-member-states-multicultural-says-Britains-quota-legal.html
The EU should make sure that its member states are multicultural to ensure the prosperity of the union, the UN's special representative for migration has said.
Peter Sutherland also suggested the UK government's immigration policy had no basis in international law.
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Mr Sutherland, who is non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs International and a former chairman of oil giant BP, heads the Global Forum on Migration and Development, which brings together representatives of 160 nations to share policy ideas.
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He said that an ageing or declining native population in countries like Germany or southern EU states was the 'key argument and, I hesitate to the use word because people have attacked it, for the development of multicultural states'.
'It's impossible to consider that the degree of homogeneity which is implied by the other argument can survive because states have to become more open states, in terms of the people who inhabit them. Just as the United Kingdom has demonstrated.'
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He criticised the UK's attempt to cut net migration from its current level to 'tens of thousands' a year through visa restrictions.
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Mr Sutherland, who has attended meetings of The Bilderberg Group, a top level international networking organisation often criticised for its alleged secrecy, called on EU states to stop targeting 'highly skilled' migrants, arguing that 'at the most basic level individuals should have a freedom of choice' about whether to come and study or work in another country.
Who is Peter Sutherland?
http://www.trilateral.org/go.cfm?do=Page.View&pid=24
Peter Sutherland is chairman of Goldman Sachs International (1995–current). He is former chairman of BP plc (1997–December 2009). He was appointed chairman of the London School of Economics in 2008. In addition to his chairmanships listed above, he is a member of the Supervisory Board of Allianz and the Advisory Board of Eli Lilly. He is currently UN special representative for migration and development. Before these appointments he was the founding director-general of the World Trade Organization. He had previously served as director-general of GATT since July 1993 and was instrumental in concluding the Uruguay GATT Round Negotiations.
Prior to this position, he was chairman of Allied Irish Banks from 1989 to 1993 and chairman of the Board of Governors of the European Institute of Public Administration (Maastricht) from 1991 to 1996. Educated at Gonzaga College, University College Dublin, and at the Honorable Society of King’s Inns, from 1969 to 1871, Mr. Sutherland was a tutor in law at University College Dublin. From 1981 until early 1982, he was attorney general of Ireland and was a member of the Council of State. He was reappointed in 1982 and served until 1984 when he was nominated by the Government of Ireland as a member of the Commission of the European Communities in charge of competition policy. During his first year at the Commission he was also responsible for social affairs, health and education, and thereafter for relations with the European Parliament.
He is associated with the following organizations: World Economic Forum, Foundation Board member; The Federal Trust, president; European Policy Centre Advisory Council, member; goodwill ambassador to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization; and consultor for the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See. His publications include the book Premier Janvier 1993: Ce qui va changer en Europe (1989) and numerous articles in law journals. He chaired the committee that reported to the EEC Commission on the functioning of the internal market after 1992 (The Sutherland Report) and was presented with the Robert Schuman Medal for his work on European integration, and the David Rockefeller Award of the Trilateral Commission.
Mr. Sutherland was a Trilateral Commission author of 21st Century Strategies of the Trilateral Countries: In Concert or Conflict (1999, with Robert B. Zoellick and Hisashi Owada) and was elected European chairman of the Commission for three terms (2001-2010). He has been decorated by the United Kingdom (honorary knighthood), France, Belgium, Brazil, the Vatican, Portugal, Spain, and New Zealand, and he has fifteen honorary degrees.
What a resume! Our centrally planned and centrally controlled planet is in good hands.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sutherland
EU Commissioner and head of the World Trade Organisation
He was appointed to the European Commission in 1985 and had responsibility for competition policy and, initially for 1985 only, also for education. He has said that he was especially pleased to have proposed the establishment of the ERASMUS programme (European Regional Action Scheme for Mobility of University Students) that allows European University students to study in other member states.
He was Chairman of the Committee that produced The Sutherland Report on the completion of the Internal Market of the EEC, commissioned by the European Commission and presented to the European Council at its Edinburgh meeting in 1992.[5]
He was the youngest ever European Commissioner and served in the first Delors Commission, where he played a crucial role in opening up competition across Europe, particularly the airline, telecoms, and energy sectors. Subsequently he was Director General of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (now the World Trade Organisation). Later Mickey Kantor, the US Trade Minister, credited him with being the father of globalization and said that without him there would have been no WTO.[citation needed] The Uruguay round of global trade talks, concluded in 1994 with Sutherland as chair of GATT, produced the biggest trade agreement in history and established the World Trade Organisation.
Chairman of the Advisory Council to the Director General of the World Trade Organisation that produced the Report on the Future of the World Trade Organisation published in 2005.[6]
Business
He is non-executive Chairman of Goldman Sachs International (a registered UK broker-dealer, a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs). Until June 2009 he was non-executive chairman of BP being replaced by Carl-Henric Svanberg formely chief executive officer of Ericsson. Sutherland was a director of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group until he was asked to leave the board when it had to be taken over by the UK government to avoid bankruptcy. He also formerly served on the board of ABB.
He is on the steering committee of the Bilderberg Group,[7] he is an Honorary Chairman of the Trilateral Commission (2010 -), he was Chairman of the Trilateral Commission (Europe) (2001–2010)[8] and was vice chairman of the European Round Table of Industrialists (2006–2009).[9]
He was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the European Institute of Public Administration (Maastrict) from 1991 to 1996.[10] He is Honorary President of the European Movement Ireland.[11]
Peter Sutherland (left) speaking with Garret FitzGerald (centre) and Will Hutton (right), at the Institute of European Affairs in Dublin in 2006.
He was appointed as a member of the Hong Kong Chief Executive's Council of International Advisers in the years of 1998–2005.[12]
He produced the Sutherland Report for the Portuguese Government on the handover of Macao to China in January 2000 [13]
He is President of the Federal Trust for Education and Research, a British think tank. He was Chairman of The Ireland Fund of Great Britain from 2001 to 2009, part of The Ireland Funds.[14] He is a member of the advisory council of Business for New Europe, a British pro-European think-tank.[15]
He was a member of the Commission on Human Security set up by the Japanese Government that reported to the United Nations in 2003.[16]
In 2005, he was appointed as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.[17] In Spring 2006 he was appointed Chair of London School of Economics Council commencing in 2008.[18]
Sutherland also serves on the International Advisory Board of IESE,[19] the eminent graduate business school of the prestigious Spanish university, the University of Navarra.
In January 2006, he was appointed by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan as his Special Representative for Migration. In this position, he was responsible for promoting the establishment of a Global Forum on Migration and Development, a state-led effort open to all UN members that is meant to help governments better understand how migration can benefit their development goals. The Global Forum was acclaimed by UN Member States at the UN High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development, in September 2006, and will be launched in Brussels in July 2007.
On 5 December 2006, he was appointed as Consultor of the Extraordinary Section of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (a financial adviser to the Vatican).[20]
On 22 January 2010 he said while in Dublin that Ireland could not afford seven comprehensive top tier universities with research capabilities.[21][22][23]
In September 2010 ahead of the Irish government budget for 2011, Sutherland said that the proposed €3bn of cuts in expenditure, “The figure of €3 billion has been postulated as the improvement to be sought in the next budget,” he said. “We are told that this is all that the political system can bear, but if all the mainstream political parties accept that more is required – although disagreeing perhaps about where to find the €3 billion – and are prepared to say it, we can find a way.” Sutherland said a default on State debts would leave the Government without the capacity to manage its affairs or raise finance. “It simply is not an option to choose,” he said.[24]
Sutherland is also co-Chairman of the High Level Group appointed by the Governments of Germany, Great Britain, Indonesia and Turkey to report on the conclusion of the Doha Round and the future of multilateral trade negotiations. Report issued in May 2011.[25]
2010 interview
...
In November 2010, he renewed his involvement in trade issues when he was appointed co-chair of an Experts Group, created by the heads of government of Germany, Great Britain, Indonesia and Turkey, to report on the priority actions to be taken to combat protectionism and to boost global trade. The Trade Experts Group's interim report was launched at Davos on January 28, 2011.
Honours, awards and honorary doctorates
Honorary Fellow of OXONIA,The Oxford Institute For Economic Policy [27]
Honorary Doctorate of Law, St Louis University (1985)
The Gold Medal of the European Parliament (1988)
Robert Schuman Medal (1988)
The First European Law Prize (Paris 1988)
European Person of the Year Award (1988)
The David Rockefeller International Leadership Award (1998),
Grand Cross of Order of Civil Merit (Spain 1989)
The Irish People of the Year Award (1989)
Grand Cross of Order of Leopold II (Belgium 1989)
New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal (1990)
Honorary Doctorate of Law, National University of Ireland (1990) [28]
Knight of the Legion of Honour (France 1993)
The Consumer for World Trade Annual Award (1994)
Commandeur of the Order of Ouissam Alaouite (Morocco 1994)
Honorary Doctorate of Law, Bath University (1995)
Order of Rio Branco (Brazil 1996)
The Dean’s Medal, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, (1996)
Honorary Doctorate of Law, University of Reading (1997) [29]
Grand Cross of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique (Portugal 1998)
Honorary Doctorate of Law, Nottingham University (1999)
Honorary Doctorate of Law, Exeter University (2000) [30]
Foundation Day Medal, University College Dublin (2004)
Honorary Knighthood of the Order of St Michael and St George (UK 2004)
Honorary Doctorate of Law, Queens University, Belfast (2004) [31]
Honorary Doctorate of Letters, University of Sussex, 2008 [32]
Lifetime Achievement Award, Ireland Chamber of Commerce USA (2009) [33]
Honorary Fellowship of London School of Business
Honorary Vice President of the University College Dublin Law Society (2011)
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2163969/UN-migration-chief-calls-EU-force-member-states-multicultural-says-Britains-quota-legal.html
The EU should make sure that its member states are multicultural to ensure the prosperity of the union, the UN's special representative for migration has said.
Peter Sutherland also suggested the UK government's immigration policy had no basis in international law.
...
Mr Sutherland, who is non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs International and a former chairman of oil giant BP, heads the Global Forum on Migration and Development, which brings together representatives of 160 nations to share policy ideas.
...
He said that an ageing or declining native population in countries like Germany or southern EU states was the 'key argument and, I hesitate to the use word because people have attacked it, for the development of multicultural states'.
'It's impossible to consider that the degree of homogeneity which is implied by the other argument can survive because states have to become more open states, in terms of the people who inhabit them. Just as the United Kingdom has demonstrated.'
...
He criticised the UK's attempt to cut net migration from its current level to 'tens of thousands' a year through visa restrictions.
...
Mr Sutherland, who has attended meetings of The Bilderberg Group, a top level international networking organisation often criticised for its alleged secrecy, called on EU states to stop targeting 'highly skilled' migrants, arguing that 'at the most basic level individuals should have a freedom of choice' about whether to come and study or work in another country.
Who is Peter Sutherland?
http://www.trilateral.org/go.cfm?do=Page.View&pid=24
Peter Sutherland is chairman of Goldman Sachs International (1995–current). He is former chairman of BP plc (1997–December 2009). He was appointed chairman of the London School of Economics in 2008. In addition to his chairmanships listed above, he is a member of the Supervisory Board of Allianz and the Advisory Board of Eli Lilly. He is currently UN special representative for migration and development. Before these appointments he was the founding director-general of the World Trade Organization. He had previously served as director-general of GATT since July 1993 and was instrumental in concluding the Uruguay GATT Round Negotiations.
Prior to this position, he was chairman of Allied Irish Banks from 1989 to 1993 and chairman of the Board of Governors of the European Institute of Public Administration (Maastricht) from 1991 to 1996. Educated at Gonzaga College, University College Dublin, and at the Honorable Society of King’s Inns, from 1969 to 1871, Mr. Sutherland was a tutor in law at University College Dublin. From 1981 until early 1982, he was attorney general of Ireland and was a member of the Council of State. He was reappointed in 1982 and served until 1984 when he was nominated by the Government of Ireland as a member of the Commission of the European Communities in charge of competition policy. During his first year at the Commission he was also responsible for social affairs, health and education, and thereafter for relations with the European Parliament.
He is associated with the following organizations: World Economic Forum, Foundation Board member; The Federal Trust, president; European Policy Centre Advisory Council, member; goodwill ambassador to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization; and consultor for the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See. His publications include the book Premier Janvier 1993: Ce qui va changer en Europe (1989) and numerous articles in law journals. He chaired the committee that reported to the EEC Commission on the functioning of the internal market after 1992 (The Sutherland Report) and was presented with the Robert Schuman Medal for his work on European integration, and the David Rockefeller Award of the Trilateral Commission.
Mr. Sutherland was a Trilateral Commission author of 21st Century Strategies of the Trilateral Countries: In Concert or Conflict (1999, with Robert B. Zoellick and Hisashi Owada) and was elected European chairman of the Commission for three terms (2001-2010). He has been decorated by the United Kingdom (honorary knighthood), France, Belgium, Brazil, the Vatican, Portugal, Spain, and New Zealand, and he has fifteen honorary degrees.
What a resume! Our centrally planned and centrally controlled planet is in good hands.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sutherland
EU Commissioner and head of the World Trade Organisation
He was appointed to the European Commission in 1985 and had responsibility for competition policy and, initially for 1985 only, also for education. He has said that he was especially pleased to have proposed the establishment of the ERASMUS programme (European Regional Action Scheme for Mobility of University Students) that allows European University students to study in other member states.
He was Chairman of the Committee that produced The Sutherland Report on the completion of the Internal Market of the EEC, commissioned by the European Commission and presented to the European Council at its Edinburgh meeting in 1992.[5]
He was the youngest ever European Commissioner and served in the first Delors Commission, where he played a crucial role in opening up competition across Europe, particularly the airline, telecoms, and energy sectors. Subsequently he was Director General of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (now the World Trade Organisation). Later Mickey Kantor, the US Trade Minister, credited him with being the father of globalization and said that without him there would have been no WTO.[citation needed] The Uruguay round of global trade talks, concluded in 1994 with Sutherland as chair of GATT, produced the biggest trade agreement in history and established the World Trade Organisation.
Chairman of the Advisory Council to the Director General of the World Trade Organisation that produced the Report on the Future of the World Trade Organisation published in 2005.[6]
Business
He is non-executive Chairman of Goldman Sachs International (a registered UK broker-dealer, a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs). Until June 2009 he was non-executive chairman of BP being replaced by Carl-Henric Svanberg formely chief executive officer of Ericsson. Sutherland was a director of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group until he was asked to leave the board when it had to be taken over by the UK government to avoid bankruptcy. He also formerly served on the board of ABB.
He is on the steering committee of the Bilderberg Group,[7] he is an Honorary Chairman of the Trilateral Commission (2010 -), he was Chairman of the Trilateral Commission (Europe) (2001–2010)[8] and was vice chairman of the European Round Table of Industrialists (2006–2009).[9]
He was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the European Institute of Public Administration (Maastrict) from 1991 to 1996.[10] He is Honorary President of the European Movement Ireland.[11]
Peter Sutherland (left) speaking with Garret FitzGerald (centre) and Will Hutton (right), at the Institute of European Affairs in Dublin in 2006.
He was appointed as a member of the Hong Kong Chief Executive's Council of International Advisers in the years of 1998–2005.[12]
He produced the Sutherland Report for the Portuguese Government on the handover of Macao to China in January 2000 [13]
He is President of the Federal Trust for Education and Research, a British think tank. He was Chairman of The Ireland Fund of Great Britain from 2001 to 2009, part of The Ireland Funds.[14] He is a member of the advisory council of Business for New Europe, a British pro-European think-tank.[15]
He was a member of the Commission on Human Security set up by the Japanese Government that reported to the United Nations in 2003.[16]
In 2005, he was appointed as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.[17] In Spring 2006 he was appointed Chair of London School of Economics Council commencing in 2008.[18]
Sutherland also serves on the International Advisory Board of IESE,[19] the eminent graduate business school of the prestigious Spanish university, the University of Navarra.
In January 2006, he was appointed by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan as his Special Representative for Migration. In this position, he was responsible for promoting the establishment of a Global Forum on Migration and Development, a state-led effort open to all UN members that is meant to help governments better understand how migration can benefit their development goals. The Global Forum was acclaimed by UN Member States at the UN High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development, in September 2006, and will be launched in Brussels in July 2007.
On 5 December 2006, he was appointed as Consultor of the Extraordinary Section of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (a financial adviser to the Vatican).[20]
On 22 January 2010 he said while in Dublin that Ireland could not afford seven comprehensive top tier universities with research capabilities.[21][22][23]
In September 2010 ahead of the Irish government budget for 2011, Sutherland said that the proposed €3bn of cuts in expenditure, “The figure of €3 billion has been postulated as the improvement to be sought in the next budget,” he said. “We are told that this is all that the political system can bear, but if all the mainstream political parties accept that more is required – although disagreeing perhaps about where to find the €3 billion – and are prepared to say it, we can find a way.” Sutherland said a default on State debts would leave the Government without the capacity to manage its affairs or raise finance. “It simply is not an option to choose,” he said.[24]
Sutherland is also co-Chairman of the High Level Group appointed by the Governments of Germany, Great Britain, Indonesia and Turkey to report on the conclusion of the Doha Round and the future of multilateral trade negotiations. Report issued in May 2011.[25]
2010 interview
...
In November 2010, he renewed his involvement in trade issues when he was appointed co-chair of an Experts Group, created by the heads of government of Germany, Great Britain, Indonesia and Turkey, to report on the priority actions to be taken to combat protectionism and to boost global trade. The Trade Experts Group's interim report was launched at Davos on January 28, 2011.
Honours, awards and honorary doctorates
Honorary Fellow of OXONIA,The Oxford Institute For Economic Policy [27]
Honorary Doctorate of Law, St Louis University (1985)
The Gold Medal of the European Parliament (1988)
Robert Schuman Medal (1988)
The First European Law Prize (Paris 1988)
European Person of the Year Award (1988)
The David Rockefeller International Leadership Award (1998),
Grand Cross of Order of Civil Merit (Spain 1989)
The Irish People of the Year Award (1989)
Grand Cross of Order of Leopold II (Belgium 1989)
New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal (1990)
Honorary Doctorate of Law, National University of Ireland (1990) [28]
Knight of the Legion of Honour (France 1993)
The Consumer for World Trade Annual Award (1994)
Commandeur of the Order of Ouissam Alaouite (Morocco 1994)
Honorary Doctorate of Law, Bath University (1995)
Order of Rio Branco (Brazil 1996)
The Dean’s Medal, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, (1996)
Honorary Doctorate of Law, University of Reading (1997) [29]
Grand Cross of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique (Portugal 1998)
Honorary Doctorate of Law, Nottingham University (1999)
Honorary Doctorate of Law, Exeter University (2000) [30]
Foundation Day Medal, University College Dublin (2004)
Honorary Knighthood of the Order of St Michael and St George (UK 2004)
Honorary Doctorate of Law, Queens University, Belfast (2004) [31]
Honorary Doctorate of Letters, University of Sussex, 2008 [32]
Lifetime Achievement Award, Ireland Chamber of Commerce USA (2009) [33]
Honorary Fellowship of London School of Business
Honorary Vice President of the University College Dublin Law Society (2011)