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What good will moving the United Nations Headquarters outside New York do?
Are you proposing to 'abandon' and 'evict' the UN its New York HQ building. Instead we'll have the General Assemby held in either Geneva (Switzerland), Vienna (Austria), and Nairobi (Kenya),
It really makes no sense except for pleasing a few paranoid americans. There is enough security in place to protect any visiting world leaders and the american public.
It would be considered as a sign of "Weakness" for the USA to evict the UN based on alleged "terrorist" and "security" concerns. Last time I check the US is military superpower with nuclear weapons.
Technically the land is located in New York. It is considered as International Territory. With an agreement upon with the UN and USA. The US still retains some jurisdiction to the area.
The UN is the place of forum where States settle their grievances thru Diplomacy. Banning alleged rouge state leaders would only alienate them. That is not the right way to achieve peace, freedom and eradication of poverty.
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Why on an island?
It could be housed on a big giant ship that never goes to port.
Maybe it just needs to be given more autonomy than it already has, like the way the Vatican City is technically its own country within Rome.
In any case... seriously... do you really think that leaders of "rogue nations" are going to use entrance in the UN as some sort of way to do a suitcase-nuke suicide bombing of New York?
Given that the US does not keep its own nukes in New York, all he'd be doing is guaranteeing total destruction of his own country.
Currently, the UN diplomats like the UN being in New York, because it has the best night-life, and because the US already has the most thorough scanners set up on its borders for detecting suitcase nukes, which means all the UN diplomats are basically piggy-backing on security already wrapped around the US, so if the UN moved out, it would up the UN membership fees, because now it would have to hire special border security to do what the US already does anyway.
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September 25, 2009 04:28 AM
Should United Nations be moved out of the US to an island nation?
This will keep the leaders of "rogue" nations from entering the country and also avoid other security issues.
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| September 25, 2009 07:49 AM |
Are you proposing to 'abandon' and 'evict' the UN its New York HQ building. Instead we'll have the General Assemby held in either Geneva (Switzerland), Vienna (Austria), and Nairobi (Kenya),
It really makes no sense except for pleasing a few paranoid americans. There is enough security in place to protect any visiting world leaders and the american public.
It would be considered as a sign of "Weakness" for the USA to evict the UN based on alleged "terrorist" and "security" concerns. Last time I check the US is military superpower with nuclear weapons.
Technically the land is located in New York. It is considered as International Territory. With an agreement upon with the UN and USA. The US still retains some jurisdiction to the area.
The UN is the place of forum where States settle their grievances thru Diplomacy. Banning alleged rouge state leaders would only alienate them. That is not the right way to achieve peace, freedom and eradication of poverty.
Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Headquarters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations
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• I agree with you on most of the negative impacts. But it would have been better if you had listed both pros and cons.
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September 27, 2009 10:50 PM
Maybe it should be moved to some location that's unclaimed neutral territory, like a part of antarctica... Why on an island?
It could be housed on a big giant ship that never goes to port.
Maybe it just needs to be given more autonomy than it already has, like the way the Vatican City is technically its own country within Rome.
In any case... seriously... do you really think that leaders of "rogue nations" are going to use entrance in the UN as some sort of way to do a suitcase-nuke suicide bombing of New York?
Given that the US does not keep its own nukes in New York, all he'd be doing is guaranteeing total destruction of his own country.
Currently, the UN diplomats like the UN being in New York, because it has the best night-life, and because the US already has the most thorough scanners set up on its borders for detecting suitcase nukes, which means all the UN diplomats are basically piggy-backing on security already wrapped around the US, so if the UN moved out, it would up the UN membership fees, because now it would have to hire special border security to do what the US already does anyway.
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@imadrid
I agree, and it what sort of signal would it send to the whole international community if the US evicted the UN from New York and declared all world leaders not welcome.
But I was looking at the issues that arise everytime UN General Assembly meets and attended by Gaddafi, Chavez or Ahmadinejad, to name a few.
It seems media and the people have already forgotten about the recent anti-election protests, the supression and the killings. It also seems like the world leaders have accepted Ahmadinejad has a legitimate leader.