Pushback on recommendations by the General Assembly in the UN SecGen selection process

What an incredibly hypocritical (to use a word she used herself) statement from the US representative. It would of course be more admirable for that member state and others in arrears, to pay their assessed contributions, the substantial amount of which, roughly $4 billion in unpaid dues, accounting for more than 95% of the total outstanding arrears owed by member states, undermines the Organisation’s effectiveness. This is last minute brinksmanship by an unrepentant non-paying P5 superpower aims to drive a wedge between the P/SC and P/GA on the eve of the next scheduled "straw poll", due tomorrow, Friday. Members of golf clubs must pay their annual dues if they are to play let alone compete. The Doonbeg golf club owner (Donald J. Trump) is arriving in Ireland c.12 Sept, to play on his own golf course, for the AMGEN Irish Open, at an estimated security cost to the Irish taxpayer of c.€20 million. It is time for the rest of the world to stop carrying the US on its predatory shoulders. Begin by reforming Charter Article 19. Look how little has changed since 1996 - the USA is the UN's "biggest, greatest" underperformer.

Reserving the right to harshly criticize while not paying its dues

what a surprise

Baerbock is clearly overstepping and interfering in a process that is not hers. Selecting the Secretary-General is the Security Council’s responsibility not the PGA’s. The US is right to push back against this interference.

I’d love to be a fly on the walk in the coaching seminars.