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June 09, 2006

Washington Fury Over Un Attack On Bush 'hypocrites'

Annan's British deputy criticises administration· US envoy calls
comments 'a very, very grave mistake'

by Oliver Burkeman

The deputy secretary-general of the United Nations was last night
accused of making "a very, very grave mistake" after calling the Bush
administration hypocrites who were feeding a right-wing anti-UN frenzy
in middle America.

Washington's ambassador to the UN responded with undisguised fury to a
speech by Mark Malloch Brown, the deputy secretary- general, in which
he accused Washington of using the international body "almost by
stealth as a diplomatic tool" while failing to defend it at home.

Article continues "Much of the public discourse that reaches the US
heartland has been largely abandoned to its loudest detractors, such
as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News," Mr Malloch Brown said in a speech in
New York on Tuesday.

Depending on the UN while tolerating "too much unchecked UN-bashing
and stereotyping" was "simply not sustainable", he said.

"You will lose the UN one way or another."

John Bolton, the US envoy and an outspoken critic of the UN, called
the comments "a very, very grave mistake".

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