UN demands for "reform" in Serbia is totally unacceptable

According to Reuters, the UN has threatened that Serbia "could be losing $100 million a year in UN aid" unless it, in the words of UN Resident Coordinator Francis O'Donnell "obtains political stability with a reform-oriented democratic regime". In other words, he is telling Serbs who to vote for and who should be allowed to govern, and that an essential policy of any regime are these "reforms" that destroyed Yugoslavia in 1989-91 when Ante Markovic administered them, these "reforms" that damaged Serbian industry far more in the post-2000 coup period than anything done by NATO bombing.

To order countries to commit economic suicide and to back it up with this "carrot and stick" formula is unbecoming for the UN and is a crime. The UN is not supposed to be in the business of forcing countries to adhere to ruinous economic dogma. That it is doing so says a lot about what has happened to the UN since Madeleine Albright's successful coup there put her hand-picked candidate Kofi Annan into the post of UN Secretary General. Annan was installed to this post after she successfully ousted Boutros Boutros Ghali in 1997.

The previous year, she had ordered Boutros Ghali to suppress a UN report that identified Israel as responsible for a massacre at a UN refugee centre in Qana, Lebanon, during the Israeli aggression against Lebanon of April 1996 code-named "Operation Grapes of Wrath". When Boutros Ghali failed to obey her instructions, Albright led a campaign against his serving a customary second term as UN Secretary General.

That this power play succeeded went a long way to further taming the UN to U.S. objectives, one of which is, unfortunately, to force countries to adhere to economically suicidal economic dogma. This objective is motivated by the desire to liquidate national economies and companies so that U.S. corporations can corner their markets. US economic control of these nations is one result of this and with it goes increased political control and with that, a greater capability to force countries to give the U.S. military the bases that it believes that it requires.

As a self-proclaimed global power with global responsibilities with the need to project power anywhere in the world, gaining decisive control over countries in this way is considered to be essential to maintain and enhance that standing. That the UN is participating in this dirty work shows that it has become a poodle of Washington interests.

The U.S. has gained more power in Serbia over the years, as it continues to order it about. When the Socialist Party of Serbia, which during thirteen years in power resisted these suicidal reforms dictated from Washington, helped to break a political deadlock in Belgrade and helped elect a new speaker to the Serbian parliament, the State Department proclaimed that "We are...concerned that a new government supported by the Socialist Party would be unstable and unable to lead Serbia effectively in the right direction" . This kind of unacceptable behaviour is not surprising coming from Washington, but for the UN to add its voice to this hectoring chorus shows what has become of this institution.