Though Bustani was just reelected to a new term, the Brazilian diplomat was forced out, to be followed in that job by more pliable bureaucrats, including the current Director General Ahmet Uzumcu of Turkey, who not only comes from a NATO country but served as Turkey's ambassador to NATO and to Israel. [For details, see Consortiumnews.com's "U.N. Enablers of 'Aggressive War.'"]
Since those days of the Iraq invasion, the game hasn't changed. U.S. and other Western officials expect the U.N. and related agencies to accept or at least not object to Washington's geopolitical interventions.
The only difference now is that Russia, one of the five veto-wielding members of the Security Council, is saying enough is enough -- and Russia's opposition to these biased inquiries is emerging as one more dangerous hot spot in the New Cold War.
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