http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/02/un....reut/index.html

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -- John Bolton, Washington's U.N. ambassador, tried to open his first meeting as head of the Security Council at 10 a.m. sharp on Thursday -- and was irked to find no other diplomats showed up.

"I brought the gavel down at 10. I was the only one in the room," Bolton said. The United States has just assumed the rotating presidency of the 15-nation council for the month of February.

"I believe in discipline. I think daily briefings constitute a form of intellectual discipline. Starting on time is a form of discipline," Bolton told reporters. "I failed today."

"I took a list of when they (council members) came in," Bolton said. "We started just before 10:15."

As part of a plan to modernize council operations, Bolton proposed that ambassadors gather daily at 10 a.m. for a briefing on the latest global political and peacekeeping developments.

Some ambassadors grumbled they already had too many commitments to attend daily sessions and others suggested perhaps two such briefings a week would suffice. Council members agreed to discuss the idea further on Friday.

Bolton, who describes the U.S. reform campaign as an "irresistible force" pitted against the "immovable object" that is the United Nations, also suggested U.N. officials circulate the text of planned council briefings 48 hours ahead of time.

That ran into trouble when some envoys insisted that could happen only if the text was translated into all six official U.N. languages -- Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

Bypassing the U.S. Senate, President Bush sent Bolton to the United Nations last August with instructions to shake up the world body after findings of mismanagement and corruption in the $64 billion oil-for-food program for Iraq.

Certainly typical control freak behavior, he has this in common with the Prez.

He apparently doesn't plan to learn that UN members from other countries have far different practices and customs than he. A change of pace might help his choleric tendencies.

lenal

If they can circulate the text of the brief 48 hours before the meeting why have the meeting?

So Bolton can talk to Rove & Cheney and then come up with contrary opinions and table anything another country wants to discuss?????

Respect is earned ...

Democracy is related to voting ...

No one except the President Voted for Bolton ...

Therefore one must conclude ... he speaks for no one but the President.

Therefore one must also conclude he has no respect ...




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