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US calls on UN to bar drunken diplomats
THE United States thinks the United Nations has a drinking problem.
Ambassador Joseph M Torsella, who represents the US on the UN’s budget committee, says that the tense process of negotiating the world body’s annual budget is made more complicated by the number of diplomats who turn up drunk.
The UN budget is finalised in December, when holiday parties apparently lead to some revelry spilling over into budget negotiations.
Torsella has told the UN General Assembly’s budget committee US is making “the modest proposal that the negotiating rooms should in future be an inebriation-free zone”.
Some tipsy negotiating partners have left the US “truly grateful for the strategic opportunities” he said on Monday.
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2013-03-04 16:18:54
Source: http://yeoldefalseflag.com/thread-us-calls-on-un-to-bar-drunken-diplomats
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