Bush 'Undermining UN with Aid Coalition'

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5:45pm (UK)
Bush 'Undermining UN with Aid Coalition'

By Jamie Lyons, PA Political Correspondent


United States President George Bush was tonight accused of trying to undermine the United Nations by setting up a rival coalition to coordinate relief following the Asian tsunami disaster.

The president has announced that the US, Japan, India and Australia would coordinate the world’s response.

But former International Development Secretary Clare Short said that role should be left to the UN.

“I think this initiative from America to set up four countries claiming to coordinate sounds like yet another attempt to undermine the UN when it is the best system we have got and the one that needs building up,” she said.

“Only really the UN can do that job,” she told BBC Radio Four’s PM programme.

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1. Sorry ... dupe .... please lock

[Mz Pip]

2. Earth to George

This isn't about you. I know it must be a real bummer to have something of this magnitude eclipse your "Freedom's on the march" soundbites.

Every day in every way Bush is become more and more unsufferable. What a pompous little ass.

Mz Pip
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3. duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1110146&mesg_id=1110146