In his opening remarks in Spain (see below) at the first meeting of the Millennium Development Goals, the UN Secretary General disappointingly said that nine out of ten US residents do not know what this initiative was or stands for. He urged the audience to spread the word arround to get people to know and support the initiative.
The problem is: what can such an initiative led by an accused war criminal and “genocidaire”, a de facto fascist and, according to the prestigious Foreign Policy Magazine, a leader who “practices … ethnic apartheid” in his country, bring.
The UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon maya have made a serious mistake by appointing the Rwandan dictator General Paul Kagame to co-chair the initiative. He took an initiative that sought to uplift the poor and to advocate on the behalf of the underprivileged and the economically oppressed and subjected it to the tyranny of one o the worst oppressors, if not the worst oppressor, in the world.
Now that the President of the Spanish Government has shunned the responsibility of sharing the job with the alleged criminal, the eyes are on what will become of the MDG. Is the controversy distracting the initiative of its goals? Is the MDG still born?
In his statements to the press on July 16, 2010 the UN Secretary General, through Farhan Haq, the Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, justified his choice of Rwandan Dictator General Paul Kagame in the following exchange with the press, but quickly acknowledged the problems and the roadblocks of that this choice creates:
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