You can’t make this stuff up. Hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fear-mongering address to the UN General Assembly last week, the UN’s 193-member committee on Disarmament and International Security unanimously appointed Iran special rapporteur of the weapons disarmament committee.
Iran had submitted its candidacy for the position in July.
Israel is not happy. Ron Prosor, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, condemned the decision on Monday and sent a letter of complaint to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon saying the appointment was akin to “appointing a drug lord as CEO of a pharmaceutical company.”
UPI: Israel protests Iran’s U.N. weapons committee appointment
“It is inconceivable that a state under Security Council sanctions for suspected WMD proliferation activities would be allowed to hold this position. Permitting Iran to serve on the U.N.’s leading disarmament committee is like appointing a drug lord [chief executive officer] of a pharmaceutical company. How is it possible to entrust the reporting on disarmament to a country that itself is likely to be the subject of the report?” Prosor wrote.
The Jerusalem Post reports “Prosor’s warnings may fall on deaf ears, as many countries seem to be lining up to drink the metaphorical Iranian koolaid.”
…The position’s duties include relaying information and reports on disarmament and armament activities between the committee and the General Assembly.
The First Committee on Disarmament and International Security, which is comprised of all 193 member states, “considers all disarmament and international security matters” and “seeks out solutions to the challenges in the international security regime.” One of its main functions is to draft resolutions that are later debated by the General Assembly; the committee has no power to pass resolutions.
Prosor’s warnings may fall on deaf ears, as many countries seem to be lining up to drink the metaphorical Iranian koolaid.
British foreign secretary William Hague told Reuters that Britain and Iran are working on mending ties, and Britain is thinking about reopening its embassy in Tehran that they shuttered in 2011.
Ouch.
“Permitting Iran to serve on the U.N.’s leading disarmament committee is like appointing a drug lord [chief executive officer] of a pharmaceutical company. How is it possible to entrust the reporting on disarmament to a country that itself is likely to be the subject of the report?” Prosor wrote.”
Yeah and it is also like one drug lord complaining about another Drug Lord who may or may not have Drugs.
Prosor, you reek of hypocrisy.
Glad you got a strong and unified message from the Intl Community.Enough of your whinging.
“British foreign secretary William Hague told Reuters that Britain and Iran are working on mending ties, and Britain is thinking about reopening its embassy in Tehran that they shuttered in 2011.”
Boy, That,s one up the old spout for the zios.Israel,s leaders must be traumatized by these sudden hammering’s it is taking.
Things are looking up and all I suspect due to nietanyahu,s friendly fireside chat at the UN.
What a difference a Day makes.
An after thought!.
Wouldn,t it be Ironic if Israel is denied a place on the UN Security Council as a revolving member.
The biggest druglord, if we want to use nuclear/biological/chemical weapons as our metaphor, in the Middle East is Israel.
Israel here is concerned with a rival drug lord, although far less powerful, that will threaten their hegemony on the ability of mass destruction.
But apparently the U.S. didn’t even bother to lobby for their parasitic settler-colonial state. I wonder how much fear this induces in their spines.
Chip, chip, chipping away.
Oh, by the way, did you guys know that 2 Israeli-Americans got the Nobel today?
THIS PROVES THAT THE ANTI-ISRAELI LEFT CANNOT OPPOSE THE APARTHEID-POLICIES IN ISRAEL ON REASONABLE GROUNDS! NOBEL!!!1
Let’s ignore the fact that neither have been in Israel working full-time for several decades. And that Apartheid South Africa was easily the most technologically advanced state in Africa at it’s time, and if just to take it further, Nazi Germany was the most advanced economy in Europe at the outbreak of WWII. Not that Israel is the same as Nazi Germany but the broader point is important here.
Technological advancement =/= humanistic values.
Highly technlogical societies can easily become racist nightmares on their own.
Prosor just another Israeli official who tries hard to flip the script. If Israel had been appointed to such a position now that would be like appointing a drug lord . Israel has the massive nuclear, biological and chemical weapons that go un inspected because Israel has and continues to refuse to sign the NPT. The Iranian President has invited Israel once again to sign the NPT…Iran has been pushing for a nuclear free middle east. Israel’s undeclared stockpiles have and continue to be a threat to peace in the middle east.