Se se confirmar, é de fato bizarro...
Parece estranho que um organismo criado para combater a Aids na Africa possa doar 25 milhoes de dólares para um Fundo destinado a constituir a Biblioteca Clinton, no Arkansas. Pelo menos é o que se deduz da matéria abaixo coletada nos meios de imprensa e na internet.
Primeiro, uma matéria de imprensa sobre as tribulações do casal Clinton sobre as doações à Fundação Clinton e seu possível impacto nas relações exteriores dos EUA, ou pelo menos no trabalho da Secretária de Estado Hillary Clinton.
Depois, uma informação sobre a UnitAid.
A grande interrogante é como se foi chegar a isso…
1) Doações problemáticas…
500M PROBLEMS FOR MADAME SECRETARY
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
New York Post, December 19, 2008
Now that Bill Clinton has released the list of his 205,000 donors who have given close to $500 million to his library and foundation, it is clear why he resisted releasing the list while his wife was running for president.
Now, compelled by the Obama transition team to make it public as a condition of his wife's appointment as secretary of state, it becomes clear that the list is a virtual encyclopedia of conflicts of interest for the husband of a senator - to say nothing of the husband of an incoming secretary of state.
The list reveals another key center of conflicts of interest in Kazakhstan, the former Soviet republic, now home to some of the world's greatest mineral deposits and ruled by a corrupt dictator, Nursultan Nazarbayev, who, according to The New York Times, has all but quashed political dissent.
Bill Clinton visited Kazakhstan and met with its president on Sept. 6, 2005, accompanied by Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra.
Soon after, Giustra was awarded a highly lucrative contract to mine uranium there. Now, lo and behold, Frank Giustra turns up having given the library and foundation between $10 million and $25 million and the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative of Canada gave $1 million to $5 million more.
And Clinton got $1 million to $5 million from Lakshmi Mittal, the fourth-wealthiest person on the Forbes billionaire list and a member of the Foreign Investment Council in Kazakhstan.
In addition, Clinton further fished in troubled waters by taking $1 million to $5 million from Victor Pinchuk, the son-in-law of the controversial former president of the Ukraine.
Given the complexities of US policy toward the former Soviet republics in Central Asia, it is hard to see how this massive and incestuous relationship cannot but complicate Hillary's independence.
One of the largest donors to the library and foundation was UNITAID, an international organization largely controlled by France, which donated more than $25 million. And the conflicts of interest are not all just foreign. Corporate bailout recipients and recipient wannabes donated to the Clinton fund. They include AIG, Lehman, Merrill, the Citi Foundation and General Motors.
And, almost as an afterthought, the list reveals a donation of at least $250,000 from Denise Rich, presumably in return for her ex-husband's presidential pardon.
How could a US senator possibly serve dispassionately while her husband was collecting money from these donors on this kind of scale? And how could we have almost elected a president without realizing these conflicts existed? And how on earth can a secretary of state function with these conflicts hanging over her head?
2) Agora a pergunta: por que a UNITAID deveria efetuar uma doação de mais de US$ 25 milhões para a Biblioteca Clinton?
Uma informação da Internet:
Why UNITAID?
For several years, the international community has been looking for new tools to ensure sustained financing for development and the fight against hunger and poverty. .A consensus has emerged on the value of innovative sources of finance to respond to this global challenge. With one child getting HIV/AIDS every 20 seconds and one child dying from malaria every 30 seconds in the developing countries, there is an urgent need to address a global State of emergency, where patients are in the South when medicines are in the North.
In 2004, a group of 44 pioneering countries agreed on the need for additional stable resources for development and committed to develop innovative mechanisms and has started working on implementing innovative development financing mechanisms.
France and Brazil, along with other countries and international organizations, opened a discussion on the need to facilitate access to drugs for the world's poorest people as part of the fight against the major pandemic diseases. In 2006, France, Brazil, Chile, Norway and the United Kingdom decided to create an international drug purchase facility called UNITAID to be financed with sustainable, predictable resources. As an economically neutral tool the tax on air tickets was considered as the most suitable instrument.
This mechanism seeks to fill a critical gap in the global health financing landscape: the need for sustained strategic market intervention to drive price reduction and increases in supply.
UNITAID was officially launched on 19 September 2006 in New York on the occasion of the Opening Session of the United Nations General Assembly by France’s President Jacques Chirac, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, Chile’s Foreign Minister Alejandro Foxley Rioseco, Great Britain’s Parliamentary Under-Secretary of International Development Gareth Thomas, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Republic of the Congo’s President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and the former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
PS.: Um amigo me enviou uma informação reservada que me permito colocar aqui, sem atribuição de origem:
Citando:
"...a discussão sobre como criar um adicional sobre passagens aéreas passou [por órgãos do governo, que me permito suprimir, PRA]. O Lula tinha ido a um encontro internacional e anunciado que o Brasil iria criar esse imposto/adicional sobre passagens, sem consultar ninguém. Acontece que não há previsão constitucional para esse tipo de imposto. A Constituição brasileira não prevê imposto para financiar ajuda internacional.
A ordem [trecho suprimido] é fazer de conta que o discurso não aconteceu. Depois colocamos algo no orçamento para aplacar as críticas."
Fim de citação.
PRA: De fato, o que sei é que o Brasil vem participando do UnitAid com contribuições orçamentárias, provavelmente na rubrica do Ministério das Relações Exteriores.
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