USA Priorities In UN Actions

Zalmay Khalizad announced his priorities in UN will, amongst others be, stabilisation of Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon.

New American ambassador with UN candidate Zalmay Khalizad, former USA ambassador in Afghanistan, announced on Thursday before the Foreign Affairs Senate Committee that his priorities in UN will be, among other things, to stabilise Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon, to implement Security Council measures towards nuclear programmes or Iran, North Korea and to finalise the humanitarian crisis and genocide in Darfur.

Strengthening of efforts for the stabilisation and empowering of Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon as present goals, and long-term transformation of broader Near East which is a determining challenge of our time, said Khalizad, naming five of his priorities of future duty, if the Senate ratifies him.

He also pointed out implementation of Security Council measures towards nuclear programmes of Iran and North Korea and the finalisation of mass humanitarian crisis in Darfur, in order to “save lives and fulfill obligation of the international community and USA to protect people from crime and genocide”.

Among the priorities, Khalizad included strengthening of UN abilities to start and run peace operations more efficiently, and also the promotion of efficient approach to the climate and pure energy, in a way that will ensure economic growth in the next decades.

Dr. Zalmay Mamozi Khalizad (56) is the highest ranked Afghanistan citizen and Muslim in George W. Bush`s administration. In 2005 and 2006 he was the American ambassador in Iraq, while he was nominated for the US ambassador with UN post last month. John Bolton left this position at the end of 2006.

He was born in Mazari Sharif in north Afghanistan in 1951 in a Tajik family. He emigrated to USA in a student exchange scheme, graduated from the American University in Beirut, obtained his PhD at the University of Chicago. He lectured political science at Columbia University. In 1984 he joined the State Department where he worked as an expert for war in Afghanistan and the Iraqi-Iranian war.

From 1990 until 1992 he was assistant deputy Minister for political planning at the Pentagon, while from 1993 until 2000 he was the Strategy department director of RAND corporation, institute for multi-discipline researches in Washington.

From the beginning of 2001, he is a part of the George W. Bush administration, performing various duties. Following the September 11 attack, he was included in the planning of overthrowing Talibans in Afghanistan. From November 2003 until June 2005 he was the American ambassador in Kabul.