Overwhelming support for Brazil as member of the UN Security Council

Friday, October 16th 2009 - 04:33 UTC

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Bosnia, Brazil, Gabon, Lebanon and Nigeria were elected Thursday to non-permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council. They will serve two-year terms starting January 1 and will participate in decisions ranging from deploying U.N. peacekeepers to imposing sanctions. Read full article

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Joao
Ok, but what about the rest of the countries who also joined the Security Council? The number of votes is very telling in their cases, even more than the only one referred to by the article. Maybe it's too biased an approach, don't you think? J
Oct 16th, 2009 - 09:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Mbeki
Yeah, right! Look at the results! 1) NIGERIA 186; 2) GABON 184; 3) BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA 183; 4) BRAZIL 182; and 5) LEBANON 180
Why then only mentioning the fourth candidate?
Oct 16th, 2009 - 10:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Leila
A bit too obvious! Great for Brazil, and of course the previous three and fifth candidates, but Mercopress approch is somewhat biased, and this is crystal clear in this article.
Oct 17th, 2009 - 07:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Tiqui
Me parece que esta vez muchachos de Mercopress se les fue un poco la mano! Con Brasil está todo bien, pero paren de forzar las cosas y venderlsa como si fueran diferntes de lo que son! Este artículo los deja un poco en evidencia porque ni nombran al resto ni a las circunstancias tal cual fueron. Vamos Mercopress, un poco de sensatez!
Oct 18th, 2009 - 09:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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J.A. Roberts
Joao, Mbeki and Leila.

I think Brazil was probably the only country mentioned in this story because Mercopress is a South American news agency, no doubt syndicating to S. American media who would no doubt be more interested in news about countries in their own continent. The last time I checked Nigeria, Gabon, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Lebanon were not in South America.
Oct 18th, 2009 - 11:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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George
Still too biased taking into account Brazil's candidature was the only one at regional level (Venezuela's was not officially endorsed)! Sorry J.A., I'm afraid you are losing the point as the article not even mentions the other four! Maybe you work for the agency, do you?
Oct 19th, 2009 - 07:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Luis
J.A. Roberts, uk is not a south american nation and it is mentioned every two articles of five.
Oct 22nd, 2009 - 10:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Mariano
Luis, can't agree more with you. That's an excellent example. By the way, there's a Mercopress increasing tendency to show some “regions” (most of which are countries, actually except for the so-called “Falklan” Islands which is quite unpleasant to see in a South American news agency) as booming instead of others which can't help being so ruined! Not because I support the Argentine Government', which I do NOT, but there are lots of good news regarding Argentina also, besides the bad ones Mercopress only publishes. Is this a tendency, to call it a name?
Oct 22nd, 2009 - 06:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Luis
Well, news here are very selected ones, very subjective. You just have to click in the botton of Regions and then click in Argentina to see what kind of news they make, try it.
For example, instead of “Argentine classify to the world cup” they say “FIFA orders disciplinary investigation into Maradona’s comments” or “Maradona’s foul reactions turn “hand of God” against him”.
http://en.mercopress.com/argentina
or provocative titles like “”Kirchners “surrendered” to the IMF, says leading Argentine economist“” instead of “”Kircher seek agree with the IMF“”.
http://en.mercopress.com/argentina
Or “”Falklands’ government “integral part” of discussions with Argentina“” instead of “” Falklands/malvinas government consider themself “integral part” of discussions with Argentina“”.
http://en.mercopress.com/argentina

Anyway we cant be sorprised by this kind of biased articles when we have clarin that is pretty much the same optics. They are becoming anti-argentine, all articles against the government or murders or hostages. Im not kirchnerist but i think its too much from clarin.
www.clarin.com ( go only if you want to get furious)
cheers.
Oct 22nd, 2009 - 11:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Mariano
I can't agree more, once again. Maybe Argentina is not paying to Mercopress as the rest seems to be doing!
Oct 23rd, 2009 - 06:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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