{"id":5498,"date":"2005-10-11T09:49:40","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T13:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5498"},"modified":"2005-10-11T09:49:40","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T13:49:40","slug":"diplomacy-still-isnt-john-boltons-strong-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/diplomacy-still-isnt-john-boltons-strong-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Diplomacy still isn&#8217;t John Bolton&#8217;s strong point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A top United Nations envoy returned from the Darfur region of Sudan recently and had discouraging news: the calamity is actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/10\/10\/AR2005101001317.html\">getting worse<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I found the situation much more dangerous and worrisome than I expected it to be,&#8221; said [Juan Mendez, special adviser to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan], who just completed his second visit to the region in the past year. &#8220;Until last week, there have never been concerted, massive attacks of an indiscriminate nature against civilians&#8221; in camps in Darfur.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mendez was prepared to share his findings with representatives on the U.N. Security Council, but was <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20051010\/wl_nm\/sudan_un_usa_dc&#038;printer=1;_ylt=Ajf7K5uUI8NHHSoT_gP_9k1n.3QA;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-\">denied the opportunity<\/a> &#8212; by Bush&#8217;s man at the U.N., John Bolton.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. Ambassador John Bolton blocked a U.N. envoy on Monday from briefing the Security Council on grave human rights violations in Sudan&#8217;s Darfur region, saying the council had to act against atrocities and not just talk about them.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton, joined by China, Algeria and Russia, prevented Juan Mendez, Secretary-General Kofi Annan&#8217;s special adviser for the prevention of genocide, from briefing the council on his recent visit to Darfur, despite pleas from Annan and 11 other council members that Mendez be heard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to a Washington Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/10\/10\/AR2005101001317.html\">report<\/a>, Bolton said the Security Council didn&#8217;t need another briefing and said a report from Mendez &#8220;would distract the 15-nation council from making decisions needed to halt the violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leave it to John Bolton to argue that a U.N. envoy for the prevention of genocide, offering updated, first-hand information, might &#8220;distract&#8221; the Security Council. <\/p>\n<p>Two months on the job and Bolton is already learning how to make friends and influence people &#8212; and doing the opposite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top United Nations envoy returned from the Darfur region of Sudan recently and had discouraging news: the calamity is actually getting worse. &#8220;I found the situation much more dangerous and worrisome than I expected it to be,&#8221; said [Juan Mendez, special adviser to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan], who just completed his second visit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}