19 January 2007

A disarming proposal

Maybe the US really did get their man when Ban Ki-moon was appointed Secretary General of the United Nations but everything is not, as yet, going their way.

He had proposed that the Secretariat's Department of Disarmament Affairs be eliminated as a separate entity and that it be brought under the Department of Political Affairs, probably with an American in charge. He has had to backtrack on that proposal after angry protests from the Non-Aligned Movement.

Score one for the good guys.

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