A House GOP plan to reform of the United Nations force or face massive U.S. Financing cuts was attacked by President Obama, Ambassador of the world body today, as a misguided political.
"Defect in concept is fundamentally legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations and practice sets us back, makes no sense and does not work" in an Ambassador Susan Rice.
[Photos of abroad the Obama.]
She added that it would cut American influence in the New York Assembly and the United States in a rebellious outsider.
During a breakfast interview with reporters, sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor said rice, that is the United States working on the reform of the United Nations, long critically ineffective, anti-American body seen, which wasted money.
"The objective of the reform is one that we are working to keep track of every day of the week, but we very strongly believe that the way to do this, from the perspective of a member in good standing, who has met his obligations and is displayed as a constructive player, where our influence is considerably improved, and not as a laggard and a debtor who whine from the outside", that things are not changed, as we would like to see changed you, ", says rice in unusually sharp language." [Photos of unrest in Libya.]
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman IIeana Ros-Lehtinen, a leading critic of the UN, is pushing a plan to let the U.S. pay for what it wants to at the United Nations as a way to pressure for new reforms. Currently, about 22 percent of the United Nations or $6.4 billion from the United Nations funded the United States $ 22.3 billion budget. That is double what 10 years ago.
Choose to pay, instead of to the full amount ponying U.S. influence, would destroy, rice says.
"We can violate not our obligations under the Treaty and an à la carte approach to pay our obligations," says rice. Previous efforts to the United Nations by slashing U.S. donations, to punish, she added, "reduces our it reduces our influence, and he made it much more difficult for us to use the facility to obtain the positive results for the United States view,."
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