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Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Helms Urges New Beginning in U.N.-U.S. Relations Date: Thursday, January 20, 2000 5:21 PM Source: Reuters http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000120/ts/un_helms_1.html Helms Urges New Beginning in U.N.-U.S. Relations By Anthony Goodman UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Jesse Helms, one of the most powerful American senators, in a Security Council speech on Thursday called for a new beginning in U.N.-U.S. relations -- and then set about smashing some of the most cherished icons in the temple of international diplomacy. ``If the United Nations is to survive into the 21st century, it must recognize its limitations,'' he said in a speech filled with warnings against U.N. dictation over U.S. foreign or domestic affairs. ``As matters now stand, many Americans sense that the U.N. has greater ambitions than simply being an efficient deliverer of humanitarian aid, a more effective peacekeeper, a better weapons inspector, and a more effective tool of great power diplomacy,'' said the arch-conservative Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and one of the most vocal critics of the United Nations in the U.S. Congress, . ``They see the U.N. aspiring to establish itself as the central authority of a new international order of global laws and global governance. This is an international order the American people will not countenance,'' he said. Although he spoke in the Security Council chamber, at the invitation of council President Richard Holbrooke of the United States, the meeting was not billed as a formal council meeting. As council members and others anticipated a tongue-lashing, Helms opened by saying -- perhaps superfluously -- that ``it may very well be that some of the things I feel obliged to say will not meet with your immediate approval, if at all.'' U.S. Not 'Deadbeat Nation' Says Helms He then went on to reject charges that the United States was a ``deadbeat nation'' for not paying its U.N. dues on time; said Americans would never accept the United Nations as the ``sole source of legitimacy on the use of force'' in the world; denounced plans for an international criminal court as ``a power grab;'' and charged that, ``more often than not, 'international law' has been used as a make-believe justification for hindering the march of freedom.'' While the United States had agreed, under certain conditions, to pay $926 million toward even larger U.N. arrears, it actually spent $8.779 billion last year to support what Helms said were ``various U.N. resolutions and peacekeeping operations around the world.'' He was referring to U.S. forces in such places as Bosnia and Kosovo which, while authorized by the Security Council, do not count as U.N. operations. Americans ``know instinctively that the U.N. lives and breathes on the hard-earned money of the American taxpayer,'' while hearing ``U.N. officials declaring absurdly that countries like Fiji and Bangladesh are carrying America's burden in peacekeeping,'' he said. The American people had a ``long history of coming to the aid of those struggling for freedom.'' It was a ``fanciful notion that free peoples need to seek the approval of an international body (some of whose members are totalitarian dictatorships) to lend support to nations struggling to break the chains of tyranny and claim their inalienable, God-given rights.'' While national sovereignty must be respected, nations lost their legitimacy when they ruled without the consent of the governed and brutally oppressed their people, Helms said. ``Slobodan Milosevic cannot claim sovereignty over Kosovo when he has murdered Kosovars and piled their bodies into mass graves. Neither can Fidel Castro claim that it his sovereign right to oppress his people. Nor can Saddam Hussein defend his oppression of the Iraqi people hiding behind phony claims of sovereignty,'' Helms said. Helms Issues Warning ``I am here to plead from now on we must all work together, to learn from past mistakes,'' he said. ``But candor compels that I reiterate this warning: the American people will never accept the claims of the United Nations to be the 'sole source of legitimacy on the use of force' in the world.'' Referring to reports that the prosecutor of the U.N. Yugoslav war crimes tribunal had looked into possible NATO violations during the Kosovo campaign, he said any attempt to indict NATO commanders ``would be the death knell for the International Criminal Court (ICC).'' ``No U.N. institution -- not the Security Council not the Yugoslav tribunal, not a future ICC -- is competent to judge the foreign policy and national security decisions of the United States,'' Helms declared. While America's friends in Europe were conceding more power to supra-national institutions like the European Union, ''Americans are heading in precisely the opposite direction,'' he said, referring to the devolution of U.S. federal power ``to the individual states where it rightly belongs.'' ``That is why Americans reject the idea of a sovereign United Nations that presumes to be the source of legitimacy for the United States government's policies, foreign or domestic,'' Helms said. ``There is only one source of legitimacy of the American government's policies -- and that is the consent of the American people,'' he said. 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