A detail Analysis: Bhutto's Outburst in UN Security Council
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During a rambling, 96-minute speech, Gadhafi delivered remarks on a broad range of issues including swine flu, the 1963 assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and the need for $7.77 trillion in reparations for Africa from former colonial powers.
Wearing brown robes and at times holding the U.N. charter, the Libyan leader called for giving Africa a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council and giving more power to the General Assembly. He also criticized the United Nations for failing to stop some 65 wars around the world since its creation in 1945.
He denounced U.S. military action in Iraq and Vietnam and defended Afghanistan's Taliban, saying the group should be allowed to create a religious state. Despite the criticisms, he still praised U.S. President Barack Obama, saying he wished Mr. Obama could remain president forever.
Ties between Libya and the United States have long been strained during Mr. Gadhafi's four decades in power. But relations improved in 2003 after Libya publicly abandoned its weapons of mass destruction program.
The move has not appeased critics still angry with Libya's role in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people.
Some of that anger is behind local opposition in New York to where the Libyan leader stays while he is visiting.
Mr. Gadhafi often takes a large Bedouin tent on his trips abroad to meet and entertain guests, but this week New York authorities ordered workers to stop building the tent on an large estate owned by real estate developer and television personality Donald Trump in Bedford about 70 kilometers northeast of New York City.
Locals say a building inspector issued a stop work order because no legal permits were obtained.
A statement released by Trump's corporation says part of the 86-hectare estate was leased on a short-term basis to Trump's Middle Eastern partners, who "may or may not" have a relationship with the Libyan leader.
Earlier, the U.S. State Department rejected Mr. Gadhafi's plans to erect a tent at property owned by the Libyan embassy in New Jersey.
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Gaddafi blasts big powers in first U.N. speech
By Louis Charbonneau and Haitham Haddadin
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi, in his first address to the United Nations in 40 years as Libya's autocratic ruler, on Wednesday accused major powers on the Security Council of betraying the principles of the U.N. charter.
"The preamble (of the charter) says all nations are equal whether they are small or big," Gaddafi said in a long, rambling speech during which he chastised his audience for falling asleep.
After reading from a copy of the U.N. charter, Gaddafi condemned the veto power held by five permanent of the council, at one point referring to it as the "terror council." Speaking through an interpreter, he said: "The veto is against the charter, we do not accept it and we do not acknowledge it."
Clad in a copper-coloured robe with an emblem of Africa pinned over his chest, the Libyan leader dropped his paperback copy of the charter on the podium several times before tossing it over his shoulder.
Gaddafi, who touched on subjects ranging from the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, the U.S. invasion of Grenada and free medicine for the world's children, spoke for 1 hour and 35 minutes.
It was not a record-breaker -- in 1960 Cuba's Fidel Castro blasted U.S. imperialism for about four hours -- but it threw out the U.N.'s scheduling on a day when many leaders were down to speak.
TELLS DELEGATES TO WAKE UP
A number of delegates left the hall and at one point the Libyan leader complained about the tired appearance of the audience. "Please can I have your attention," he said.
"All of you are tired, having jet lag. ... You are tired. All of you are asleep."
Many countries have been upset by Libya's warm public reception for a Libyan official convicted of involvement in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing attack who was released by Scotland last month on health grounds.
That was about the only issue Gaddafi did not touch on in his speech.
Gaddafi's presence prompted some protests and wide interest in New York. He tried unsuccessful to get permission to pitch a Bedouin tent he likes to stay in Central Park and in two other sites near New York City.
The United States, Britain, France, Russia and China are permanent veto-wielding members of the Security Council, the most powerful body within the United Nations. Libya has a temporary council seat and will be on the 15-nation panel until the end of this year.
"Veto power should be annulled," Gaddafi said.
"The Security Council did not provide us with security but with terror and sanctions," he told leaders gathered for the opening day of the 192-nation General Assembly.
PRAISE FOR OBAMA
Gaddafi, who spoke just after U.S. President Barack Obama, said the fact that "65 wars" have broken out since the U.N. was established more than 60 years ago proved its founding principles had been betrayed.
"The election of Obama is the beginning of change," he said and applauded Obama's stated commitment to nuclear disarmament. Other U.S. presidents, he said, had terrorizing his region.
The United States began lifting its sanctions and normalizing relations with Tripoli after Gaddafi said he was abandoning Libya's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs in December 2003.
Although he dismissed the Security Council as illegitimate, Gaddafi, who currently chairs the African Union, reiterated Africa's call for a permanent council seat.
He also said that Africa deserved compensation totalling $7.77 trillion (4.72 trillion pounds) from its past colonial masters for damages sustained during the colonial period.
(Editing by David Storey)
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Saving the UN from its board of directors!
The board of directors of major US banks (Mostly members of the Jewish financial mafia) squandered profits, robbed shareholders, abolished traditional reserve funds and gave themselves fat bonuses and fees. The result was high-rising but empty bank buildings begging the taxpayer to save them. Naturally, the untouchables Jews got away to enjoy their profits unscathed leaving the country with astronomical debts. Right now, there are calls to save the banks from the greedy board of directors.
Similarly, the United Nations has been undermined and bankrupted by its CEO, the Americans. There is no respect for the member state sovereignty, its main objective of peace is violated by successive wars, while pro-American criminals are protected and rewarded disregarding the wishes of the majority of the 192 members. As an example, the Americans went to invade Iraq, destroy its infrastructure, kill its people and hang its president for an assumed breach of two UN Security Council resolutions concerning its Weapons of Mass Destruction. But the UN is unable to punish Israel for being in breach of 39 UN Security Council resolutions, for developing and stockpiling all types of Weapons of Mass destruction or for the genocides against the Palestinians.
Furthermore, the US vetoed an UN resolution protecting Bibi Netanyahu from being denounced as a terrorist, after leading a commando unit that destroyed 10 civilian aircrafts at Beirut Airport. This same Netanyahu, whose country is sitting on 400 Nuclear War heads, dares to call on the UN to impose sanctions on Iran for having Uranium Enrichment programs. Add insult to injury, Netanyahu call was endorsed by other board members the likes of Obama, Sarkozy and Gordon Brown.
Similar to the US banks, the UN is bankrupt and impotent in dealing with the Israeli crimes and genocides while the role of its Secretary General is being reduced to that of a small clerk in the US Department of State. In conclusion the Jews have bankrupted the US banks and the United Nations. It is no wonder that Gheddafi threw away UN charter as it failed to protect the majority of its members.
Adnan Darwash, Iraq Occupation Times
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