MEDIA REACTION ON THE UN, SEPTEMBER 19, 2005

UNCLAS TEGUCIGALPA 001948

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FOR IIP/G/WHA AND IIP/T/ES,
FOR WHA/PDA, WHA/USOAS, IO/UNP, AND WHA/CEN

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SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION ON THE UN, SEPTEMBER 19, 2005



1. On 9/18 the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La
Prensa" published an editorial entitled "Poor results."
"The few results of the UN's General Assembly in its
sixtieth anniversary is an obvious example of the
disagreements, product of complex organization, to which we
can apply the contradiction of our time: the (UN) has become
indispensable before being effective."

"The UN, political forum and space of civilized coexistence
between nations, is at a crossroad. The international
community recognizes that reforms are necessary, the rules
of the game between nations are completely different from
those that existed during the second postwar period when the
international body was born."

"The recent report on corruption in the `Petroleum for Food'
program weakened the position of the organization's director
who took responsibility by not having used his authority.
The UN is pressured by those in the Security Council who
vote and veto and of those who aspire to renew it (UN) in
order to improve the organizational scheme that was
developed by those who won the war fifty years ago."

"The negotiations around the document generated ample spaces
on which the present international situation weighed a lot
towards the unilateralism of the U.S. power. The concrete
references and the obligatory commitments were eliminated,
transformed into insipid good intentions."

"The subsidies in agriculture are the greatest obstacle of
the rich countries in order to obtain a less unjust
agreement for the poorest nations. While the UN does not
show its will in concrete facts with pragmatic and real
solutions, we will continue listening to remote
grandiloquent speeches of the tragic daily life of millions
of people."

Williard