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United Nations...Truly An Oxymoron

The English language, UN-style

Posted: May 26, 2009, 1:15 PM by NP Editor
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The United Nations is planning a meeting next month to discuss the global economic downturn. They're having trouble getting organized, though, so they want to delay it a few weeks.

Being the UN, though, they can't just send out a one-line e-mail saying as much.

First they have to aggrandize the meeting and coat it in gobbledygook:

The United Nations is convening a three-day summit of world leaders from 1 to 3 June 2009 at its New York Headquarters to assess the worst global economic downturn since the Great Depression. The aim is to identify emergency and long-term responses to mitigate the impact of the crisis, especially on vulnerable populations, and initiate a needed dialogue on the transformation of the international financial architecture, taking into account the needs and concerns of all Member States.

The United Nations summit of world leaders in June was mandated at the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development, held in December 2008 in Doha, Qatar. Member States requested the General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann to organize the meeting “at the highest level”.

Then they need to issue a near-impenetrable "Urgent" letter announcing the delay:

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