In show of Latam unity Chile is elected to the UN Security Council

Saturday, October 19th 2013 - 17:53 UTC

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The United Nations General Assembly elected this week Chad, Chile, Lithuania, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia to serve as non-permanent members on the Security Council for two-year terms beginning on 1 January 2014. The five countries obtained the required two-thirds majority of those Member States present and voting in the 193-member Assembly. Read full article

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Briton
It matters not,
The unmighty UN has lost all respect from honest nations,
And the dishonest ones who break and ignore all the rules care even less.
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Oct 19th, 2013 - 06:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Conqueror
No real problem with Chile. But thanks for letting us know there's a latam “pact”. That should ensure action to negate it.
Oct 19th, 2013 - 07:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Brasileiro
I agree.
Oct 19th, 2013 - 07:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Rufus
Erm, I thought that the non-permanent members of UNSC were elected from semi-regional groupings, which have a given number of seats.

The five groupings being:
Africa (the continent) has three elected seats,

Asia-Pacific (pretty much everything east of Turkey, south of Russia and north of Australia) has one permanent member (China) and two elected seats,

The Eastern European group (Europe east of Germany, including Russia) has one permanent member (Russia) and one elected seat,

The Latin American and Caribbean Group (all of the western hemisphere except Canada and the US) have two elected seats,

and the Western European and Other Group (western Europe, the US, Canada, Turkey, Australia and New Zealand) have three permanent members (the US, the UK and France) and two elected seats.

The fact that there are two UNSC members from Latin America is hardly some great political conspiracy, it's if not an inevitability then not really a great surprise. Especially as with the exception of Cuba (1949-50, 1956-7, 1990-91), Jamaica (1979-80, 2000-01) and Trinidad and Tobago (1985-86), all of the elected members were mainland countries.
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