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IRAN ELECTED TO TOP POST AT UN ARMS TRADE CONFERENCE……….

 

Ban Ki-Moon can complain all he wants as he supposedly hangs his head in shame (he’s been involved in dubious ventures that give credibility to this kind of tomfoolery). This is of course quite in line with UN thinking over the last 4 decades, where all kinds of thuggish regimes are handed important posts to sit in judgement of the West, especially of Israel.

The money quote:

“This is like choosing Bernie Madoff to police fraud on the stock market. And the U.N.’s scandalous choice of Iran is exactly why we fear that Syria’s declared bid for a U.N. Human Rights Council seat is not impossible.

Iran elected to top post at UN Arms Trade Treaty conference

Sunday, 8 July 2012, 2:37 pm
Press Release: UN Watch

Human rights group urge Ban Ki-moon to condemn “scandalous” election

Contact UN Watch in Geneva: media1@unwatch.org

GENEVA, July 8 – Iran was elected to a top post on the UN Arms Trade Treaty conference, revealed UN Watch today in an exclusive report. The Geneva-based human rights group is calling on UN chief Ban Ki-moon, who addressed the conference on the same day, to condemn the selection of the Tehran regime.

Although the U.N. conference website and summary fail to name the 15 members elected to the bureau on July 3rd, UN Watch has discovered that the countries elected to the five regional groups include Iran, Japan, and South Korea for the Asian group; Kenya, Egypt and Nigeria for Africa; Azerbaijan, Belarus, and Ukraine for Eastern Europe; Australia, Netherlands and Switzerland for the Western Europe & Others Group; and Mexico and two others for Latin America. (See U.N. webcast here, announcing election of Iran at minute 4:45.)

The United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty, which opened last week and runs until July 27, promises to deliver a new agreement to regulate the transfer of arms.

“Right after a UN Security Council report found Iran guilty of illegally transferring guns and bombs to Syria, which is now murdering thousands of its own people, it defies logic, morality and common sense for the UN to now elect this same regime to a global post in the regulation of arms transfers,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, a non-governmental monitoring group based in Geneva.

More here.

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