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11/14/08

The Bulletin - UN General Assembly President Omitted From G-20 Guest List? - by Michael Brasky


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UN General Assembly President Omitted From G-20 Guest List?

UN General Assembly President Omitted From G-20 Guest List? - by Michael Brasky

For Fr. Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, president of the U.N. General Assembly, the guest list of the G20 is far too exclusive. On Thursday, when asked what Fr. d'Escoto's position was on the Washington summit, his spokesperson responded: "President d'Escoto believes, that the solutions and the dialogue should not come only from the G-8. And it should not come only from the G-20, or the G-40, for that matter. That it should come from the G-192, which is the General Assembly of the United Nations." Unanswered in the exchange was whether Fr. d'Escoto himself would be attending.

In a 2004 interview, he condemned President Reagan as "the butcher of my people" in reference to the Contra War in Nicaragua. This struck a nerve with many Bush administration officials who are devout adherents to the ethos of the Reagan era. Fr. d'Escoto has called American democracy a farce. "When they talk democracy, they mean a country that has submitted to them and that would comply with whatever they say," he was reported as having said. "When they apply the name democracy to another country, they mean it is an obedient country."

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