"UNITED NATIONS – Historic position statements were scrubbed and the U.S. flag image deleted from the website for the United States U.N. mission as the organization unveiled its new and "improved" Internet presence.
The move already is stirring controversy in diplomatic hallways.
The launch of the new website coincides with the U.S. assuming the monthly presidency of the Security Council and President Obama's first trip to the world organization later this month.
The most glaring change to the website has been to eliminate the image of Old Glory from its top position on the home page. Previously, the image of the U.S flag was displayed in a prominent position at the top of the page, paired with the State Department logo.
The old banner featuring the image of the U.S. flag, taken from a separate web location that had not yet been changed.
That is no more. The flag has now been replaced with the crest of the United Nations.
Among more than a dozen U.S. embassy websites, from Moscow to Beijing to Mexico City, surveyed by WND, only the U.S.-U.N. mission has eliminated the image of the Stars and Stripes. "...
But more importantly, an important database apparently has been removed.
Until the redesign, the statements and position papers of past United States U.N. ambassadors were kept online.
"We had them all. It went back to I can't remember when," confessed the former official.
Now, the entire database has disappeared.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108708
The move already is stirring controversy in diplomatic hallways.
The launch of the new website coincides with the U.S. assuming the monthly presidency of the Security Council and President Obama's first trip to the world organization later this month.
The most glaring change to the website has been to eliminate the image of Old Glory from its top position on the home page. Previously, the image of the U.S flag was displayed in a prominent position at the top of the page, paired with the State Department logo.
The old banner featuring the image of the U.S. flag, taken from a separate web location that had not yet been changed.
That is no more. The flag has now been replaced with the crest of the United Nations.
Among more than a dozen U.S. embassy websites, from Moscow to Beijing to Mexico City, surveyed by WND, only the U.S.-U.N. mission has eliminated the image of the Stars and Stripes. "...
But more importantly, an important database apparently has been removed.
Until the redesign, the statements and position papers of past United States U.N. ambassadors were kept online.
"We had them all. It went back to I can't remember when," confessed the former official.
Now, the entire database has disappeared.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108708
