Ah, so our new ambassador to UNESCO, the monsignor, was pro-Gaddafi. Given that he was also pro-Mintoff, that figures.
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October 23, 2013 at 11:24pm
Monsignor Vella Gauci – his uncle Monsignor Gauci wasn’t much better. He was a big fan and friend of Mintoff.
Read this article (link below) which Joe Vella Gauci, now a monsignor and our new ambassador to UNESCO, wrote and had published in The Times in 1992, arguing against economic sanctions on Gaddafi’s Libya.
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It is about time they learn to “bury the hatchet” especially when it comes to foreign policy. To date Libya has continually helped our nation. Now is the time, the moment of truth, when we should be united to help this neighbouring country rather than argue along party political lines.
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VELLA GAUCI, J. Should Economic Sanctions be Imposed on Libya?, in The Times, Malta 27/3/1992, p.5.
http://www.thinksite.eu/pages/tsdart.asp?id=656
U mistaghbin kemm hu mniehru mxammar, l-ambasciatore.
Did he include a copy of his article with his “credentials” which he presented to Ms. Irina Bokova, the Director General of UNESCO?
How could they send to a UN organisation someone who supported a Prime Minister who didn’t give a sh*t about the constitution of Malta? That very constitution which incorporates the fundamental human rights set out by the UN in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
Vella Gauci must really have struck you. It’s the first time you’ve posted a serious/non-witty comment in donkeys’ years.
Monsignore, actually, mon nothing, you may have gotten away with impressing some in your little fiefdom but now you’re in the big world and we can see you so don’t shame our church please.
Don’t shame our Church more than you have already done, PLEASE.
Min kien jghajjar bil-klikka? Illum il-klikka ta’ veru hadet over fuq kollox u fuq kulhadd.
Kompli aghtina aktar informazzjoni, Daphne… imnalla hawn int.
His thesis was about the Arab/ Maltese intertwined historical relationship. Somebody else must have written it for him, because his mastery of English is nil.
His thesis was written by a former teacher from Ghajnsielem who has since passed away. I know because he was a good friend of mine and told me when he was writing it.
I find this appointment shameful and disrespectful towards all the institutions that this person now represents. I would hope that if the Curia doesn’t say something in this categoric media inertia, that at least he is likewise summoned to the Pope.
Was the objective of this particular posting to finally accord Ggantija the historical recognition, and renovation, it deserves?
Whilst overdue and important, that should be a minor consideration and not the main priority focus.
There are others who have way more of a UNESCO track record and diplomatic history in this direction. Perhaps not all yes-men.
Well, 2014 is the International year of both Small Island Developing States, Family Farming and Crystallography.
As for decade observances: http://www.un.org/en/events/observances/decades.shtml
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UNESCO is known to organize itinerant dance spectacles too…How useful to have such a concentration of subservient talent…
Has this man chosen the right “vocation”?
Surely not but there are others like him who made politics their vocation rather than priesthood.
Mhux ta’ b’xejn il-mons jilhaq ambasciatore. L-ewwel ghamel snin fil-kumitat tal-ministru qabel l-elezzjoni u issa qed jiehu li kien imwieghed.
Kif jista xi darba Gozo jiehu r-ruh? Jista mhux idum fil-gvern il-PL ghax l-imsieken Ghawdxin Laburisti m’huma ha jiehdu xejn milli wieghduhom, tant hu hekk li hafna Laburisti m’humiex ha jivvutaw ghal tal-MEPs.