John Bolton criticises Pakistan’s positions at the UN

[RazorMC]

A new leak shows the American opinion of Pakistan's position at the UN. The prevailing thought was that Pakistan was acting in a manner that was clearly anti-US.

Please bear in mind that the period/era in reference is the late 90s when we were under sanctions.

Excerpts:

... Like Egypt — the first UN
member state reviewed by USUN (reftel) — Pakistan is one of
a handful of countries (including India, Brazil, and South
Africa) that routinely oppose the United States in
multilateral debates despite strong bilateral ties to the
U.S...

...Pakistan effectively uses its membership in
the G-77, the NAM, the Asia Group, and the OIC to project its
views and achieve greater influence at the UN than its
standing in the international community would otherwise
suggest...

...Pakistan’s voting correlation with the U.S. in the
UNGA has been on a downward trend since 1996 and reached a
record low of 17.4 percent last year...

... Pakistan's actions at the UN
may embolden other member states to oppose U.S. positions
when they see a "friend of the U.S." doing the same with
impunity...

... Pakistan also joined Egypt and
other NAM states in insisting that “”politically sensitive
mandates”" (i.e., the mandates that authorize biased
Palestinian committees) be declared off-limits to the review
process until some later date...

... Akram expressed consistent opposition to
establishing criteria for election to the HRC as well as to a
two-thirds majority voting threshold (2006 USUN 243). He
insisted on provisions for “”equitable geographic
representation”" on the HRC, which reduced the number of slots
open to the U.S. and Western European countries. Akram also
capitalized on the controversy over the Danish cartoons to
push for language barring “”provocations against religion and
culture,”...

...Akram had
earlier argued that permanent P5 membership on the PBC was
neither “”equitable nor functionally justified,”" and asked,
“”Why should the P5 be there all the time?”"...

Read the cable here.

 

[Burger Boy]

John Bolton is an a$$h0le.

The most detrimental thing to America's image worldwide is having someone like this guy as your UN ambassador, then again, Zalmay Khalilizad who replaced him was not too great either.

 

[Developereo]

John Bolton is a favorite at Faux News.

Enough said.

 

[RazorMC]

Silly people within the US administration are helping to deteriorate the Pak-US relations.