tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8029569143393348400.post1370711405330539757..comments2023-05-15T15:23:34.307+03:30Comments on Persian Paradox: Quds and DemocracyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8029569143393348400.post-18955655809467183572011-09-02T16:39:22.440+04:302011-09-02T16:39:22.440+04:30In October 2009 I received invitation at the Unite...In October 2009 I received invitation at the United Nations General Assembly to visit Egypt and I subsequently attended a party hosted by President Hosni Mubarak. I would not call him as 100% dictator, but an autocrat.<br /><br />At 2010 UN General Assembly he proposed a meeting with the Egyptian diaspora in New York. People's unanimous response was that he should seek retirement - but to avail.<br /><br />I believe the secret to the President Hosni Mubarak's downfall and disgrace largely resulted from his love to cling onto the President's magnificent summer house in Montasah, Alexandria. <br /><br />It is a truly lovely house which anyone would wish to live in. But it belongs to the government. So, he just quite couldn't give up of being the President. So he had to stay as a President with the now disastrous results for him personally and reputation all but ruined.<br /><br />The leaders should understand that modesty needs to be there to accept the reality that it is the virtue of office that these state houses are handed over. But perhaps this was luck to Egyptians as much of his corruption also came into limelight.<br /><br />It also needs to be remembered that he still retains support in part of the society and calling him dictator is perhaps too much. But certainly he was a man who loved his house and could not give up because of it. We warned him at the UN General Assembly that people would probably eventually run out of patience having seen him as the only candidate for all their lives.<br /><br />Veli Albert Kallio, FRGS<br /><br />Frozen Isthmuses' Protection Campaign of the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans (FIPC)<br /><br />Vice-President Environment<br />Sea Research Society<br /><br />Fellow, Royal Geographical Society (London)<br /><br />Fellow, The Explorers Club (New York City)<br /><br />A press-panellist for Arctic - Mirror of Life (RSE) Symposia, Greenland<br /><br />First Nations of the Americas UN General Assembly Proposition UNGA101292 investigator which the Group of Western Nations Suppress; follow-up session convener at People's Climate Change and Mother Earth's Rights Summit at Cochabamba-Tiquipaya, April 2010.Veli Albert Kalliohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSpCbn8JDvMnoreply@blogger.com