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Sen. Helms tempers attack against U.N. officials
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Sen. Jesse Helms, who has made a
career of lambasting the United Nations, kept up the attack as he ad
dressed the Security Council yesterday , saying Americans feel “a
lack of gratitude” from the world organization.
Helms, R-N.C., who has previously branded U.N. officials as
“dysfunctional” and “cry babies,” tempered his criticism by propos
ing a new spirit of cooperation with the world body and suggested
formal, annual visits between members and U.S. lawmakers.
“If we are to have a new beginning, we must endeavor to under
stand each other better,” Helms said in the first-ever address by a U.S.
lawmaker to the Security Council.
Despite his courtly tone and offer of a “hand of friendship,” del
egates reacted coolly to Helms’ litany of U.N. excesses and failings.
American tardiness in meeting its payments and Helms’ insistence
on a lower U.S. contribution “has hindered and not helped” peace
keeping efforts, said Jeremy Greenstock, the British envoy.
Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s representative, complained that the Unit
ed States failed to abide by tenns of a U.N. budget that all members
approved. “All the other members of the United Nations expected the
United States to keep its word,” he said.
“The money we spend on the U.N. is not charity,” Helms declared.
“To the contrary, it is an investment — an investment from which the
American people rightly expect a return.”
"The money we spend on the U.N.
is not charity. To the contrary, it is
an investment — an investment
from which the American people
rightly expect a return."
— Sen. Jesse Helms
Congress last year voted to pay $926 million in back U.S. dues
over three years.
The United States paid a $100 million installment late last year.
But to get the rest, the United Nations must meet about a dozen con
ditions dratted by Helms, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
chairman, and Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., the committee’s senior mi
nority member.
The conditions includes a reduction the U.S. share of the l .N.
peacekeeping budget from the current 31 percent to 25 percent and
of the regular budget from 25 percent to 22 percent.
I lelms said the United Nations must also trim its spending and not
draw the United States into “entangling alliances."
“A United Nations that seeks to impose its presumed authority on
the American people without their consent begs for confrontation,
and — I want to be candid — eventual U.S. withdrawal," Helms as
serted.
The senator also accused the General Assembly of an anti-Amer
ican bias. “The American people hear ail this, they resent it . And they
have grown increasingly frustrated with what they feel is a lack ol
gratitude,” he said.
Helms was invited to speak by U.S. Ambassador Richard Hol
brooke, who holds the rotating council chairmanship.
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