U.N. aide lashes out at the U.S.
At a commencement, the secretary-general's chief of staff said America didn't play by the rules.

May 23, 2005
Associated Press
NEW YORK - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's chief of staff called the United States an ungainly giant that plays only by its rules, criticizing the United Nations' largest donor in unusually strong terms yesterday.
Mark Malloch Brown said the United States contributed most to the development of international law in the last century, but was now the country most opposed to international constraints.
This ungainly giant of a nation that has led the world in advancing freedom, democracy and decency, cannot quite accept membership in the global neighborhood association, and the principle of all neighborhoods - that it must abide by others' rules as well as its own, Malloch Brown said at the commencement address to Pace University law students.
Malloch Brown's comments, provided to the Associated Press by the university, were unusually forceful for an organization whose leaders tend to abide by an unwritten rule of not criticizing member nations.
But Annan himself has responded more energetically in recent months to U.S. critics of the United Nations.