UN expands its counter-terrorism bureaucracy minus a definition of terrorism

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution today that will create a new counter-terrorism office to operate without a definition of terrorism.

The resolution to create the new entity, called the "Office of Counter-Terrorism," was introduced by the President of the General Assembly, Peter Thomson of Fiji, who described it as the first "major institutional reform" initiative of Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

The "reform" is reported to be a means to plant a Russian in a new high level post within the U.N. secretariat. The new Under-Secretary-General position, mandated to provide "strategic leadership" on U.N. counter-terror efforts, is expected to be filled by Russian ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak.