Afrasianet - Ali Mohamed Fakhro - Nearly three decades ago, the United States withdrew from UNESCO's membership due to dissatisfaction with a resolution, and the organization found itself in a difficult financial situation. However, Japan contributed to alleviating this distress by increasing its financial contribution, but UNESCO lost its dignity and the pride of its members, as its Director-General kept going to Washington to beg for America's return, almost apologizing and promising that in the future the organization would not take any decisions or positions that would upset or embarrass America.
As a member of the Council, and as a representative of my country, Bahrain, I strongly criticized what the Director-General had done and described as being subjected by the administration, and therefore by all Member States, to American blackmail, and that he should have come to Paris to ask for a return and an apology The U.S. government is about the practice of extortion, and that the organization must respect its dignity and cherish its global importance, and therefore countries are asking to join it, not begging this or that country, no matter how big or small, and no matter how financially capable, to come and organize for it.
Tonight is like yesterday. Yesterday, America despised UNESCO, and today all the countries of the United Nations despise when its president stands up arrogantly and disrespectfully, and declares a few days ago that America has recently taken the place of the United Nations in solving intractable international problems, and has become the reference and decision-making body.
This talk is mocking and blackmailing. Are we waiting for a reaction from the UN body to a public insult by one of its members? Yes, we are waiting, provided that the dignity of the members of the Commission and the dignity of its management is preserved, after discussing the matter in the General Assembly and notifying America that these insults and blackmail by it to the Commission or its agencies, such as UNRWA, will no longer be accepted, and that when it has remarks, it must come, like others, and discuss matters in the General Assembly or the Security Council, and accept the decisions of the majority as imposed by them, since the United Nations is a participatory democratic body, not subject to the whims of this or that country.
It is time for America to realize that international organizations can live without America, while America cannot live in isolation from the international community and its institutions.
It is not enough that America obstructs many Security Council resolutions in the service of global Zionism and all those who obey it as obedient servants, to the point of saying in the words of its president that it has taken the place of the Commission in solving international problems.
Therefore, the American president heralds us the arrival of the American era and the end of the international era, which is governed by mutual respect, balanced interests, and the principles of justice, dialogue, and give-and-take for the benefit of all parties.
It is also time for America to realize that it is an equal member of the other members of international institutions and does not have the advantages of precedence and special status, and that its hosting of the headquarters of the United Nations in New York is conditional on values and behaviors that respect the independence of the organization and its democratic formation, otherwise let the General Assembly respect itself and decide to move its headquarters to a country that does not practice mockery, blackmail and childish domination, because the dignity of the institutions of the international community is above all American narcissism that does not stop and is not ashamed.