Senator Bob Kasten’s annual report on United Nations voting patterns shows that support for the United States in the UN Security Council continues to decline. He says that support for U.S. policies in the United Nations dropped from 23.7 percent in 1986 to only 18.6 percent in 1987.
The Kastlen Report on the UN is an analysis of record votes in the United Nations compiled annually by the State Department and the U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN under a law authorized by Kaslen and passed in 1983. One certainly can ’t argue Lhal Lhose who compiled the report are “out to get the UN.’’ The U.S. State Department is always more deferential to the UN and to foreigners rather than to U.S. interests.
The Kasten law calls for Just the facts, ma’am,’’ and they are very revealing. You might think, since the Kaslen law began making public these reports in 1984, (Lhat exposing the crude way foreign countries treat us would improve their behavior. It hasn’t; they have just become more arrogant.
In commenling on tLhis year’s reporl, Kasten says Lhat il “”raises troubling queslions aboul our continuing commilmeni Lo an internalional body where the majorily [inds it easy Lo trample our foreign policy objeclives wilth impunity.’’ He points out that many of these nations enjoy substantial American assistance for their own military defense, special trade advantages with us, and bundles of cash in direct foreign aid dollars.
Kasten is Loo polite. Most of these countries are just ungrateful spongers. They are also deadbeat when it comes to meeting their commitments or paying back their loans.
Ninety-Tour percent of the countries in the UN (that is, 149 countries) reduced their support for the United States between 1986 and 1987. On a regional basis, support for the United States eroded most sharply in the Western Hemisphere; the group average fell 34 percent.
There is no question about which country is our staunchest friend in the United Nations; it is Israel. That little nation supported America 80 percent of the time.
Let’s look at some specific countries that reduced their support for us last year. Egypt, which will receive $2.3 billion in U.S. aid this year, supported the United States only 14.4 percent of the Time.
Pakistan, which will receive $602.9 million from us this year, supported us in the UN, only 12.2 percent of the time.
Even two members of NATO voted against us in the UN two-thirds of the Time. Turkey, which will receive $623.5 million from us this year, supported the United States only 30.8 percent of the time. Greece, which will receive $351 million from us this year, supported us only 35.6 percent of the Time.
El Salvador, which will receive $389 million this year, supported us only 20.9 percent of the Lime. Honduras, which will receive $203 million this year, supported us only 24.1 percent of the ULime.
Nobody is demanding that other countries always vote aye when the United States makes a motion. But there’s no reason to continue these countries on our annual gift list, either. The contempt that recipients of our foreign aid have for America makes the whole UN a farce.
Apparently, foreign countries are not embarrassed by the Kastlen Report, since their record continues to get worse each year. But we should be embarrassed — Lhal we are made such fools of.
The hard-pressed American taxpayers have been conned by the one-worlders into giving more than $15 billion to the United Nations since 1946. Our current contribution is five percent of the UN’s $4.5 billion annual budget. That is about what the entire Third World pays and less than what the Soviet Union pays.
Probably some good comes out of the specialized UN agency called the World Health Organization. On the other hand, another UN agency, UNESCO, was so corrupt and pro-Communist that the United States had to pull out altogether.
The principal occupations of UN personnel are espionage and partying. Not only are the members of the Russian and Soviet bloc delegations functioning as Communist intelligence agents of one kind or another, but so are most of the Soviet-bloc nationals who are employed by the UN Secretariat.
The best way to solve the espionage problem is to move the UN out of the United States. We would all be much safer if the UN were headquartered in Geneva or some other neutral country.
Come to think of it, we would all be better off if the UN were moved to Moscow or Peking.
