Robert Mugabe is going to be the guest speaker at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization’s meeting in Rome!!!
BWAHAHAHA! This is [i]so[/i] delicious!
[quote]The United States has expressed “amazement” at a United Nations invitation to Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe to address a hunger conference in Rome on Monday to mark the 60th anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
“I find it amazing they’ve invited Mr Mugabe to speak at the 60th anniversary, who in a way has done so much to hurt the hungry, and who has absolutely turned his back on the poor,” said Tony Hall, US ambassador to the UN food agencies in Rome.
“I find it amazing. What can he possibly say to us at the conference, when he has done so much to hurt his own people? Food has been used as a weapon against his own people,” Hall said late on Friday.[/quote]
Well, I think the UN has still a very important role to play in solving the world’s problems, and I think we all need to give proper deference to the collective wisdom of the UN.
I thought there was an EU travel ban on Mugabe? Didn’t stop him attending the Pope’s funeral of course. Or visiting France for some conference a couple of years ago.
Sweet! Like Mulroney said years ago, we’d love to have it in Montreal.
Inviting Mugabe to be a guest speaker at the UN’s Food and Agriculture meeting makes about as much sense as inviting Jesse Helms to the UN Security Council. Wait, they did that too. Maybe there’s something to listening to idiots.
Sweet! Like Mulroney said years ago, we’d love to have it in Montreal.
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Well…if having a bunch of 3rd World sleazebags doubleparking everywhere and running up millions of dollars in unpaid parking tickets strokes your national ego, go for it!
I think Ottawa would be a more suitable location. It is full of first world sleazebag cabinet ministers who play with their chauffeur boytoys (or in Stronach’s case her new Allouette boyfriend ), receive six-figure salaries for doing jack shit, and cavort with other champagne socialists. Sounds like an ideal place for the UN.
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez congratulates Mr Mugabe on his speech
[quote] Anger over Mugabe tirade in Rome
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has drawn applause and anger for a speech denouncing the UK’s Tony Blair and US President George Bush at a UN event.
Mr Mugabe described the leaders as “unholy men” at the meeting in Rome.
The European Commission responded by saying the tirade justified a travel ban that the European Union imposed on the Zimbabwean leader.[/quote]