A looming confrontation that will rock the world. Posted by admin On June 28, 2020 [link to www.sinhalanet.net (secure)]


The recent approach of the US to the UN and its agencies has left many shaking their heads. The US, under President Roosevelt, played a seminal role in creating the UN and its key agencies after WWII and subsequently nurturing them. The UN was intended by Roosevelt to bring lasting peace to the world raising itself from the dust and agonising over the thousands of graves, marked and unmarked and nursing the thousands separated from their families.

The Organisation that Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold once said was created not with the intention of taking mankind to heaven but to prevent it from going to hell, is today mired in hellish doubts about its future, particularly, with the US, its physical host, biggest funder and the one remaining global super power in a foul mood, pulling out of the Human Rights Commission, the UNESCO, ceasing cooperation with the WHO and threatening brutal funding cuts, despite agreed and long standing commitments. [More at link less than 50%] [link to www.sinhalanet.net (secure)]