New York – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon denied on Monday there is any bias in the UN against Israel.
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At a press “encounter” at the UN Headquarters in New York, a reporter for Israel Radio pressed Ban about his comments last Friday while meeting with students at the UN headquarters in Jerusalem.
Ban simply said, “I don’t think there is discrimination against Israel at the United Nations.”
He continued, “The Israeli government maybe raised this issue that there’s some bias against Israel, but Israel is one of the 193 member states. Thus, Israel should have equal rights and opportunities without having any bias, any discrimination. That’s a fundamental principle of the United Nations charter. And thus, Israel should be fully given such rights.”
In Jerusalem last week, the secretary- general reportedly admitted to students that there is bias against Israel in the UN.
“Unfortunately because of the conflict, Israel has been weighed down by criticism and suffered from bias – sometimes even discrimination,” Ban said at the time, according to several media sources.
On Monday in New York, Ban retracted these comments, and emphasized that “incitement against any group of people, any religion or tradition… is unacceptable.”
At the same press event, Ban also called the renewed Israeli- Palestinian talks a “fresh opportunity for real progress,” and called on leaders from both sides to “seize this historic opportunity.”
His statements were echoed by head of UNHCR Navi Pillay, who expressed her enthusiasm for the renewed peace talks.
Speaking on the 10th anniversary of the bombing of the Baghdad UN Headquarters, an attack that killed 22 people, including the then-head of the UN High Commission on Human Rights, Sergio Vieira de Mello, Pillay paid tribute to her predecessor in her remarks to the UN Security Council.
The UN marks August 19th as World Humanitarian Day.
Speaking via video conference from Geneva, Pillay said that “the talks can only achieve tangible results if the protection of human rights is placed at the center.”
During their meeting on Monday morning to discuss the protection of civilians in armed conflict, an item that has been ongoing on the Security Council’s agenda, Pillay added, “The illegal blockade of Gaza that places restrictions on the enjoyment of fundamental human rights must be lifted.”
Content is provided courtesy of the Jerusalem Post
you don’t think there is any?
hey ban ki, how about crawl out from under the Islamic rock you are hiding under and open your eyes, the whole purpose of the UN is to steal money form the U.S. and bash Isreal
Lately every other we read the news the ban ki moon is greatly disturbed about this…..and really disturbed about that….. So I came to the conclusion that ban ki (monkey) is a very disturbed man and should be placed into a mental institution. Wait a minute…. He’s already in a mental institution… It’s called the UN…..
He must be drinking moon shine and is drunk.
I thought the guy is only stupid, but now I see the guy is blind and deaf also.
Where do they find all this idiots to work at UN (undesirable nobody’s)?
My advice to bankimoon would be, just close your פי האתון so some one might think that you suit your position
wonder what’s he’s smoking–
its like when they asked the klu klux klan member if he was a racist …he said no some of my best friends are “n-word” and k…es”
ban ki-moon, ich kah ki-moon….
he is from the moon !
He can’t see beyond his own biases.
He even thinks in diplomatic-speak, which means that he is incapable of thinking clearly and calling things as they are. His quoted statement is incoherent. He responds to an allegation of bias by claiming that since Israel is a member nation, it should not be discriminated against. How does that answer the claim of bias?
Fact: Israel is the ONLY nation that cannot serve on the Security Council (because of arcane UN rules).
Maybe he should wake up before he speaks!!
Are all VIN readers so illiterate and with childish senses of humor, or are these commenters just a particularly embarrassing bunch?
I shudder to think what the outside world thinks when they read these comments from people people who cannot spell, write or punctuate simple sentences in English, and make the stupidest comments thinking they are funny.
And if anyone thinks that VIN is not trolled for content that can be used to make Jews look foolish or racist, they are extremely naive.
It’s time to dump the UN into the Hudson River.
The Secretary is either unaware of history or intentionally suppressing the fact that it is the same U.N. that in 1975 voted to equate “Zionism” with racism. And allowed a pisto-packing Arafat to take the U.N. podium and threaten terrorism if his demands were ignored.
Ironic also, that yesterday 8/19/13 was “World Humanitarium Day.” Let us never forget that on that day twenty-two years ago, Yankel Rosenbaum, z’l was murdered by anti-Semitic thugs here in Brooklyn.
Denial of the bias is part of the bias. The UN is the forerunner to the one world order government they’ve been setting up. Zion will be the last free state.
Should have equal rights? Yes absolutely, monkey! However, stop pretending that we have them, face facts that we don’t & instill those rights to us!!!
I think it’s the (unfortunate) quote of the year. Unbelievable, this assembly of evildoers…