[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 76 (Wednesday, June 14, 2006)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1150]
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    CALLING FOR THE IMMEDIATE RESIGNATION OF UNITED NATIONS DEPUTY 
                  SECRETARY-GENERAL MARK MALLOCH BROWN

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                            HON. DAN BURTON

                               of indiana

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, June 14, 2006

  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, I call for the immediate 
resignation of United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch 
Brown.
  Last week, Mark Malloch Brown, the U.N.'s number two man behind 
Secretary-General Kofi Annan, gave an anti-American speech at a left-
wing seminar.
  The event, entitled, Power and Superpower: Global Leadership in the 
21st Century was sponsored by the Century Foundation and the Center for 
American Progress, which receives funding from the Blame-America-First-
Expert, George Soros.
  At the event, Malloch Brown derided America's foreign policy 
objectives and accused American news journalists, such as Rush Limbaugh 
and those at Fox News channel of detracting and misleading U.N. 
successes, especially with stealth diplomacy in Middle America. In 
effect, he criticized Middle America--inferring we don't understand the 
U.N. and are being manipulated.
  Malloch Brown's comments were completely out of line and unwarranted. 
He singled out a U.N. member-State, the United States, outside of 
normal protocol, derided the U.S. and its leading contributions to the 
U.N. reform effort, and involved himself and the U.N. in internal U.S. 
politics.
  I do not have to remind Mark Malloch Brown that the United States 
provides one quarter of the entire U.N. budget and there are serious 
calls in Congress, that I believe we should consider, to withhold all 
future funding to the U.N. until accountable, effective and transparent 
reform is achieved.
  If the United Nations is serious about reform, it has to reform 
itself from the inside. And that is why, today, I call on Mark Malloch 
Brown to immediately step down as Deputy Secretary-General, for the 
good of the United Nations as well as for the pride of the American 
people.
  The United States cannot have faith in the U.N. if its senior leaders 
have such a biased opinion of the people and policies of the United 
States.

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