FOX News: After a Year of Setbacks, U.N. Looks to Take Charge of World's Agenda

[PatriotOne]

EXCLUSIVE: After a Year of Setbacks, U.N. Looks to Take Charge of World's AgendaBy George Russell

Published September 08, 2010
| FoxNews.com

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/09...-world-leader/

After a year of humiliating setbacks, United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon and about 60 of his top lieutenants — the top brass of the entire U.N. system — spent their Labor Day weekend at a remote Austrian Alpine retreat, discussing ways to put their sprawling organization in charge of the world’s agenda.

Details concerning the two-day, closed-door sessions in the comfortable village of Alpbach were closely guarded. Nonetheless, position papers for the meeting obtained by Fox News indicate that the topics included:

-- how to restore “climate change” as a top global priority after the fiasco of last year’s Copenhagen summit;

-- how to continue to try to make global redistribution of wealth the real basis of that climate agenda, and widen the discussion further to encompass the idea of “global public goods”;

-- how to keep growing U.N. peacekeeping efforts into missions involved in the police, courts, legal systems and other aspects of strife-torn countries;

-- how to capitalize on the global tide of migrants from poor nations to rich ones, to encompass a new “international migration governance framework”;

-- how to make “clever” use of new technologies to deepen direct ties with what the U.N. calls “civil society,” meaning novel ways to bypass its member nation states and deal directly with constituencies that support U.N. agendas.

As one underlying theme of the sessions, the top U.N. bosses seemed to be grappling often with how to cope with the pesky issue of national sovereignty, which — according to the position papers, anyway — continued to thwart many of their most ambitious schemes, especially when it comes to many different kinds of “global governance.”

Not coincidentally, the conclave of bureaucrats also saw in “global governance” a greater role for themselves.

As a position paper intended for their first group session put it, in the customary glutinous prose of the organization’s internal documents: “the U.N. should be able to take the lead in setting the global agenda, engage effectively with other multinational and regional organizations as well as civil society and non-state stakeholders, and transform itself into a tool to help implement the globally agreed objectives.”

And for that to happen, the paper continues, “it will be necessary to deeply reflect on the substance of sovereignty, and accept that changes in our perceptions are a good indication of the direction we are going.”

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[Cowlesy]

Got to love the perpetual navel-gazers at the United Nations, off in some luxurious retreat, on ostensibly the U.S. Taxpayer's dime (as we are the main funders of the UN).

[FrankRep]

On September 20, a meeting will convene at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City to review progress made by member nations on the achievement of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDG), derived from the eight chapters of the United Nations Millennium Declaration signed in September 2000. by Joe Wolverton II

United Nations Millennium Development Conference Set for September 20


Joe Wolverton, II | The New American
10 September 2010

[awake]

'Set back' is a great way to describe paralysis.