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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - John Bolton, Washington's feisty U.N. ambassador, tried to open his first meeting as head of the Security Council at 10 a.m. sharp on Thursday -- and was irked to find no other diplomats showed up.

"I brought the gavel down at 10. I was the only one in the room," Bolton said. The United States has just assumed the rotating presidency of the 15-nation council for the month of February.

This is how the UN works for us. This is an example of the level of respect these so called dipshits, oops I meant diplomats have, for the world.

"I believe in discipline. I think daily briefings constitute a form of intellectual discipline. Starting on time is a form of discipline," Bolton told reporters. "I failed today."

"I took a list of when they (council members) came in," Bolton said. "We started just before 10:15."

As part of a plan to modernize council operations, Bolton proposed that ambassadors gather daily at 10 a.m. for a briefing on the latest global political and peacekeeping developments.

This is nothing new...sessions and meetings at the UN have always started late. It's part of the culture. A lack of discipline for sure. And a lack of accountability. At my work when we have meetings, it's a little different when one of us is late- it is often because a patient requires the attention of nursing staff. At the UN, there is no excuse really, it's just the way of it there. It's fashionable and expected.

As part of a plan to modernize council operations, Bolton proposed that ambassadors gather daily at 10 a.m. for a briefing on the latest global political and peacekeeping developments.

Some ambassadors grumbled they already had too many commitments to attend daily sessions and others suggested perhaps two such briefings a week would suffice. Council members agreed to discuss the idea further on Friday.

Oh my...the world's business isn't special enough to meet once a day to talk about? What could be more pressing? What other commitments do these idiOts have? Milk and cookie meetings in the nearest cafeteria? These slurp and burp sessions are really more vital than any issues the world is having...course it could be the dipshits, oops I meant diplomats are just sitting in the cushy little offices checking their email and web (porn) sites.

Bolton, who describes the U.S. reform campaign as an "irresistible force" pitted against the "immovable object" that is the United Nations, also suggested U.N. officials circulate the text of planned council briefings 48 hours ahead of time.

Wow...he wants an agenda to go out ahead of these meetings. No wonder he's having trouble getting the dipshits-oops I meant diplomats- to show up. They don't know a thing about how to manage a meeting.

That ran into trouble when some envoys insisted that could happen only if the text was translated into all six official U.N. languages -- Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

Like this didn't happen in the first place. Do they think we're dumb or something? Is this an excuse? Give me a fucking break. Next the dipshits-oops I meant diplomats, will complain about the text size. Get us OUT OF THE UN NOW! Posted by Raven at February 3, 2006 08:52 AM | TrackBack