Bolton Threatens U.N. over Israel Bashing 
Carl Limbacher
January 16, 2006
Newsmax
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/1/16/105136.shtml

American ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton has sent a sharply worded letter to Secretary-General Kofi Annan, threatening to cut U.S. funding to the U.N. if the world body continues to promote anti-Israel events. 
Bolton's January 3 letter came in response to an event at the U.N. celebrating the annual International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. At the event, which was attended by Annan and other top diplomats, speakers stood before a map of the Middle East that did not show the state of Israel. 
Given that we now have a world leader pursuing nuclear weapons who is calling for the state of Israel to be wiped off the map, the issue has even greater salience, Mr. Bolton wrote, referring to Iranian President Mamoud Ahmadinejad’s statement to that effect in October. 
The organizer of the event was the Division for Palestinian Rights, which received $5,449,600 in the 2004-05 U.N. budget, the New York Sun reports. 
Bolton wrote in his letter: Who is the high-level official within the secretariat who approved use of the map for the event? Does the United Nations intend to use the map in future U.N.-sponsored functions and events? 
In light of prohibition under U.S. law to fund events such as this one, do you consider it appropriate for the United Nations to advertise and promote the event on its general Web site and other venues, which do in fact benefit from U.S. funds? 
The threat to cut U.S. support for U.N. general advertising budgets is a matter of serious concern to Mr. Annan's aides, who have been under intense pressure to reform the United Nations in the wake of last year's scandals,” according to the Sun. 
The Palestinian observer at the United Nations, Riad Mansour, said a pre-1948 date is clearly marked on the map. He added that in 1981, the committee for the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people decided that the map and the flag of Palestine as it existed in 1948 should be displayed in the room where the event was held. 
But Israel's deputy ambassador to the U.N., Daniel Carmon, said: You can't have a U.N.-sponsored event that displays a map that obliterates a member-state. 
U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told the Sun that Annan much hopes that the U.N. body that organized the annual event will consider not displaying the map in the future. 
The bottom line, according to an earlier statement by Bolton, is: To say that Israel is treated as a normal nation at the U.N. would be a statement of fantasy.”