US embassy cable - 05TEGUCIGALPA1948

UNCLAS TEGUCIGALPA 001948 
 
SIPDIS 
 
FOR IIP/G/WHA AND IIP/T/ES, 
FOR WHA/PDA, WHA/USOAS, IO/UNP, AND WHA/CEN 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: OIIP, PREL, AORC, KPAO, PGOV, KDEM, HO 
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION ON THE UN, SEPTEMBER 19, 2005 
 
 
1. On 9/18 the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La 
Prensa" published an editorial entitled "Poor results." 
"The few results of the UN's General Assembly in its 
sixtieth anniversary is an obvious example of the 
disagreements, product of complex organization, to which we 
can apply the contradiction of our time: the (UN) has become 
indispensable before being effective." 
 
"The UN, political forum and space of civilized coexistence 
between nations, is at a crossroad. The international 
community recognizes that reforms are necessary, the rules 
of the game between nations are completely different from 
those that existed during the second postwar period when the 
international body was born." 
 
"The recent report on corruption in the `Petroleum for Food' 
program weakened the position of the organization's director 
who took responsibility by not having used his authority. 
The UN is pressured by those in the Security Council who 
vote and veto and of those who aspire to renew it (UN) in 
order to improve the organizational scheme that was 
developed by those who won the war fifty years ago." 
 
"The negotiations around the document generated ample spaces 
on which the present international situation weighed a lot 
towards the unilateralism of the U.S. power. The concrete 
references and the obligatory commitments were eliminated, 
transformed into insipid good intentions." 
 
"The subsidies in agriculture are the greatest obstacle of 
the rich countries in order to obtain a less unjust 
agreement for the poorest nations. While the UN does not 
show its will in concrete facts with pragmatic and real 
solutions, we will continue listening to remote 
grandiloquent speeches of the tragic daily life of millions 
of people." 
 
Williard