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Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump has criticised the UN, describing the global body as a mere talk club.
In a tweet on Monday, Trump, however, said the 193-member body has great potentials.
“The United Nations has such great potential but right now it is just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time.
“So sad,” Trump said.
Trump’s remarks might not be unconnected with Monday’s UN Security Council’s Resolution, which condemned the Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory.
Recall that a statement from Trump on Thursday had asked the U.S. to veto the resolution.
“The resolution being considered at the United Nations Security Council regarding Israel should be vetoed.
“As the United States has long maintained, peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians will only come through direct negotiations between the parties, and not through the imposition of terms by the United Nations.
“This puts Israel in a very poor negotiating position and is extremely unfair to all Israelis.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also successfully lobbied Egypt, which proposed the draft resolution, to withdraw it, enlisting the help of Trump to persuade Cairo to drop the bid.
Also recall that following the pressure that Trump reportedly put on Egypt, the sponsor of the resolution, Egypt withdrew it on Thursday and the vote was consequently delayed till Friday.
However, the resolution was put forward on Friday by Malaysia, New Zealand, Senegal and Venezuela.
However, the Obama’s administration disregarded Trump’s directive and had gone ahead to abstain from voting on the resolution when it finally came up on Friday, drawing criticisms from the president-elect and his team.
The 15-member Council adopted the resolution by a vote of 14 in favour and with one abstention – the U.S., which abstained from voting rather than veto the resolution.
Trump thereafter threatened that “things will change” at the global international organisation when he assumesthe U.S. presidency from Jan. 20, 2017.
The White House had, in a response by Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications, Mr Ben Rhodes, cautioned Trump’s and his team, saying asking them to wait till Jan. 20, 2017 and stop meddling in Obama administration’s policies.
“On the President-elect, the first thing I’d just say is that there’s one President at a time.
NAN
Ride on my president
the calibre of men/women in there nowadays, were people who goes by winds and caprises of influencial game players, their lntergrity is no more.