Is there any precedent for walking out of the U.N. General Assembly during an address from a U.S. President? Any history of any other disruption during an address - or is the process mostly civil? Not counting "axis of evil" countries, or what is left of the axis, should we expect any acts of condemnation from other representatives? There is a lot about the U.N. that I don't understand. Perhaps by actually asking aloud some questions I can manage to find some time to answer these.
Why exactly is Bush addressing them next week? Is this an annual thing done by each leader, or is this something different?
At the beginning of each regular session, the Assembly holds a general debate, often addressed by heads of state and government, in which Member States express their views on the most presssing international issues.
(But then that leads me to wonder which countries are allowed to have speakers? What is the procedure?)
In light of Kofi's questioning the legality of the invasion of Iraq (not that anyone's taking that seriously, perhaps the answer to many of these questions, including the next one), why is he (Bush) even being allowed to address a congregation he has no faith in? Is it a call and response situation or will the words likely ring hollow in a hall of bemused attendees? How can anybody in that situation sit comfortably and listen to a man who refused to listen to them? How likely is it that either party involved is going to check their pride and come to some sort of solution? Why do I bother imagining these questions when I am so irrelevant to the entire chain of events? Is there a degree of Kevin Bacon that leads me into that Assembly? Shouldn't I be doing something more productive - like finishing this chapter on the evolution of the database? Is it weird that I perceive the sentence "And this property of the relational data model, explored in depth in the next chapter, became the source of a real database revolution." to be extremely profound? That it makes me want to get to the next chapter so that I, too, can become a part of this revolution? I must. I must continue to turn the pages of history so that I myself may learn from it, compiling the raw facts and processing them into information --- as better data leads to better information which leads to better decisions. That, my friends, is what the revolution is all about. Needless to say - it will not be televised.
Related: General Assembly FAQs
UofM's Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library
Documents Center - A UN Depository Library - scroll down to UN
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