There are fewer than 50 democracies among its 192 members

Eric Shawn, author of The U.N. Exposed: How the United Nations Sabotages America's Security and Fails the World said of Iran election, "If there isn't a more blatant example of the hypocrisy and meaninglessness of some of the decisions over there, I don't know what is. You can't make this stuff up." Syria, on the US State Department list of terrorist nations for the last 30 years was elected as the U.N. Disarmament Commission recording secretary. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has also failed to live up to its mission and founding ideals. It awarded Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan brutal dictator (accused of murder, torture and slave labour of children) the prestigious gold Borobudur medal in 06 for strengthening friendship and cooperation between nations, development of cultural and religious dialogue, and supporting cultural diversity. This was after the European Union voted in October to partially suspend its Partnership and Cooperation Agreement with Uzbekistan8the first time it has ever done so with any country. In 06, UNESCO awarded another tyrant, Venezuelan president Hugo Chvez, the Jos Mart2 ; International Prize, given to those who have contributed to the struggle for liberty. The prize was personally presented to Chavez by Cuban president Fidel Castro. Perhaps the prize was for Chavez taking the UN stage and calling President Bush the devil, saying it smells of sulfur still today" a day after Bush addressed the world body. And just this month, UNESCO sponsored a conference in Beirut that gave international resistance organisations such as Hezbollah a forum to attack Israel and the United States. Last October, Farouk Hosny, Egypt minister for Culture narrowly lost his bid to become UNESCO's next director general after he was considered a shoo-in Rosetta Stone to win the election. In May , Hosny publicly vowed to personally burn any Israeli books found in Egyptian libraries, a pledge that led several leading intellectuals and peace activists, including Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel, to call on the UN to spare itself the shame" of choosing such a leader. Reporters Without Borders, the Journalism watchdog, said Hosni did not show his support for the freedom of expression - one of UNESCO's underlying missions - and said that he was one the main actors of censorship in Egypt. After his loss Hosni blamed Zionist pressures and an unnamed group of Jewish leaders who wielded influence on the elections. The real problem is that the UN does not distinguish between brutal dictatorships such as North Korea or Syria and free, democratic societies such as Australia. There are fewer than 50 democracies among its 192 members. To put it bluntly, any genocidal, theocratic or terrorist state is welcomed. That is why Iran President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who denies the Holocaust and has openly called for Israel to be wiped off the map, has been twice invited to speak from the United Nations General Assembly podium. His speech, in which he accused Jews of seeking to "establish a new form of slavery and harm the reputation of other nationsto attain its racist ambitions" was full of anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic language which prompted 11 countries to walk out, including Australia, the USA, New Zealand, Great Britain and France. A few days later Israel PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, hit back at Ahmadinejad's questioning of the Holocaust. Holding up the protocol of the 1942 conference at Wannsee, Berlin, where senior Nazis decided on the extermination of European Jewry, and the blueprints for Auschwitz, including gas chambers and crematoria - where more than one million Jews were murdered - Netanyahu castigated U.N. delegates who remained for Ahmadinejad's speech, To those who gave this Holocaust-denier a hearing, I say on behalf of my people, the Jewish people, and decent people everywhere: Have you no shame? Have you no decency? A mere six decades after the Holocaust, you give legitimacy to a man who denies that the murder of six million Jews took place and pledges to wipe out the Jewish state. What a disgrace! What a mockery of the charter of the United Nations!"

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