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Re: Let's take on the tyrants.....
Cameron targets rogue states in first UN speech
David Cameron will today demand swifter military action and sanctions against rogue states and dictators that slaughter their own people.
In his first speech to the United Nations, the Prime Minister will say that the organisation needs to stop being a talking-shop and take action.
Addressing world leaders at the UN General Assembly headquarters in New York, he will demand sanctions against Syria, where the Assad regime has slaughtered more than 2,000 of its own people.
He will also take aim at countries such as Russia and China that regularly veto attempts to take tyrants to task.
Signalling his desire to get tough on Arab dictators, he is drumming up support for a UN resolution against Syria.
Mr Cameron’s speech is a bold statement of intent after the success of the war in Libya, where he persuaded the UN to sanction action but many countries sat on their hands.
He will tell leaders: ‘You can sign every human rights declaration in the world but if you stand by and watch people being slaughtered in their own country when you could act, then what are those signatures really worth? The UN has to show that we can be not just united in condemnation, but united in action.’
Signalling his backing for tough action to support the Arab Spring, the Prime Minister will say: ‘What is right for Libya will not necessarily be right everywhere, but the international community found its voice in Libya and we must not now lose our nerve.
‘We must have the confidence to speak out and act as necessary to support those who speak new freedoms.’
Downing Street officials denied that Mr Cameron has acquired a taste for military action after his first successful outing as a world leader.
His speech is bound to be compared to Tony Blair’s in Chicago in 1999. In that speech, the former prime minister set out his doctrine backing intervention against rogue states. Dubbed the ‘Blair doctrine’, many believe it paved the way for the Iraq war.
Mr Cameron has been taking advice from Mr Blair about how to respond to the Arab Spring and the impasse in the Middle East peace process. The two last spoke face to face at a conference on Libya in Paris earlier this month.
The Prime Minister will answer his critics by arguing that by bombing Colonel Gaddafi’s troops Britain and its allies prevented worse bloodshed.
‘The United Nations is no more effective than the nation states that come together to enforce its will,’ he will say. ‘A coalition of nations across the Western and Arab world had the will to act.
‘In so doing, they stopped Benghazi from joining Srebrenica and Rwanda in history’s painful rollcall of massacres the world failed to prevent.’ On Syria, he will say: ‘Here at the UN, we have a responsibility to stand up against regimes that persecute their people.
‘Above all, on Syria, it is time for the Members of the Security Council to act.
‘Of course we should always act with care when it comes to the internal affairs of a sovereign state. But we cannot allow this to be an excuse for indifference in the face of a regime that week after week arrests, intimidates, tortures and kills people who are peacefully trying to make their voices heard.’
Downing Street said there is not currently any prospect of military action against Syria.
Officials said the speech was also designed to prod the rest of the European Union to do more to boost the Arab Spring.
Last night Mr Cameron met U.S. President Barack Obama to discuss developments in Libya, Syria, Egypt as well as the continuing row over an attempt by the Palestinians to gain statehood.
The Prime Minister then visited the 9/11 memorial garden in Manhattan before laying a wreath in honour of the 67 British victims.
He then visited the New York stock exchange to launch a campaign to boost British business with the slogan ‘Putting the great back in Britain’.
The campaign is intended to encourage businesses and students to invest in, study in and visit Britain.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article … China.html
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I LOVE it. Europeans have bitched for 10 years about Bush/Obama policies regarding these rogue regimes, now YOU guys want to go after them and occupy them but of course with OUR help. The EU is imploding, the Euro on the verge of being toilet paper, Europe balked and on the verge of pulling out of Libya mid conflict, but you want to lead the way on a policy you all deemed evil a few years ago? I guess Europe's moral high ground wasn't so high after all.
How do you like them apples?
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