{"id":60725,"date":"2016-11-15T05:28:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T12:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=60725"},"modified":"2016-11-15T05:28:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T12:28:16","slug":"unsg-unhrc-head-must-apologize-to-president-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/11\/15\/unsg-unhrc-head-must-apologize-to-president-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"UNSG & UNHRC Head must apologize to President Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shenali D Waduge<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0Top UN officials thought it fit to join the US election campaigning. It showed the appalling levels that entities we were told were unbiased and transparent could stoop to. Both the UNSG and UNHRC head came out in public to denounce only one candidate hoping to steer American public and global sentiment against the ultimate winner. Coming from the UN it was strange action of a non-partisan global peace entity. But, does the UN really have any credibility? With the announcement of President of US being Donald Trump the UNSG has been quick to congratulate him and pretend that he did not subtly campaign for the other side. This was another example of the hypocrisies and hypocrites that exist in the system all of whom need to be now thrown out of the system if we are to see any global good happening to the planet and the people. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\"unhumanchief2\"<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In May 2016 Ban Ki Moon says <\/span>We are appalled by war crimes in Syria and elsewhere. We are outraged by racism and hatred, especially when voiced by\u00a0politicians and would-be leaders. They have a duty to bring people together, not drive them apart,\u201d at the Columbia University in New York. Not a word was said about who were creating and supplying the \u2018rebels\u2019 and the carnage they were committing. No one listens to or takes seriously any of these prepared speeches any more.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Then came the other UN head. Trump would be dangerous from an international point of view\u201d if he is elected so said <\/span>United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Ra\u2019ad al-Hussein. Not stopping there he goes on to say that Trumps comments are <\/span>deeply unsettling and disturbing to me,\u201d He goes on to condemn <\/span>populists, demagogues and political fantasists\u201d who exploited economic hardship and social tensions to fan racial and religious prejudice. The statement clearly targeted Trump.\u00a0 The speech was made on 5 September where the UNHRC mentioned <\/span>Trump, Wilders, and other nationalist politicians \u2014 including Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister, Marine Le Pen, the far-right candidate for president of France, and Nigel Farage, who led the Brexit campaign \u2014 echo the xenophobic ideology of the Islamic State militant group. <\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/10\/07\/un-critic-donald-trump-geert-wilders-must-silenced-russia-says\/<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/13\/world\/europe\/donald-trump-un-human-rights.html<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The comments prompted Russia\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly I. Churkin, to complain that by naming political leaders, Mr. al-Hussein had overstepped his authority. Russia had delivered a demarche (a diplomatic protest). <\/span>Prince Zeid is overstepping his limits from time to time and we\u2019re unhappy about it,\u201d Churkin told the AP.<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/10\/07\/un-critic-donald-trump-geert-wilders-must-silenced-russia-says\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

While UNHRC head made direct attacks at Trump, the UNSG Ban Ki Moon kept his remarks to insinuations. In May 2016 he claimed he was outraged by racism and hatred, especially when voiced by politicians and would-be leaders,\u201d he did not single out Trump but everyone knew who it was targeted at.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump has announced that he is withdrawing billions of dollars allocated to the UN and will divert those funds to develop America, this questions the future of the UN which has been a puppet of western imperialism and UNSG the dummy giving the UN endorsement to illegal military invasions, occupations and delivery of democracy and then coming out with sop reports about how UN has failed. All the \u2018moderate rebels\u2019 the west sent to Syria were creating carnage and even using human shields so where was the UN with their mighty books on how to wage wars legally? Why did they not solve the crisis before deaths occurred? They can\u2019t \u2013 UN is talk only after a crisis not before. All they can do is write reports, bring bogus resolutions and send their envoys on holiday trips to nations to point fingers at how these countries should be running their country. None of their templates have worked since 1945.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Both the UNSG and the UNHRC head no doubt will go behind Trump and try to make amends as are all other foreign leaders who openly mocked and ridiculed Trump. No leader can do magic but we must give them a chance and it is not that the UNSG and UNHRC head can boast of running their offices without bias and minus controversy.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

An apology by both is certainly welcome given that they were canvassing for Clinton.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shenali D Waduge<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/oct\/12\/united-nations-human-rights-president-trump-global-danger<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/10\/07\/russia-makes-formal-complaint-to-the-un-over-speech-criticising\/<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shenali D Waduge \u00a0Top UN officials thought it fit to join the US election campaigning. It showed the appalling levels that entities we were told were unbiased and transparent could stoop to. Both the UNSG and UNHRC head came out in public to denounce only one candidate hoping to steer American public and global sentiment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenali-waduge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}