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Argentina and Brazil elected to the UN Economic and Social Council
Argentina and Brazil were elected by the United Nations General Assembly as members of the UN Economic and Social Council, ESOCOC for a period of three years beginning next January first. Argentina received 182 out of 186 votes. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThe UN has become an enormous waste of money.
Nov 03rd, 2014 - 09:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Time to close it down.
Argentina elected onto an Economic Committee ? Now that is truly funny :-)
Nov 03rd, 2014 - 09:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0Do I see a 'cunning plan'? Debt restructures and hedge funds? What would argieland know about economies or societies? Why was the argie ambassador the only one to thank the GA? Read the words carefully. ”if we don't work together to address those economic models that perpetuate and deepen economic, social and cultural inequality among peoples and countries”. Can anybody see an argie 'economic model' being pressed?
Nov 03rd, 2014 - 09:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0@3
Nov 03rd, 2014 - 10:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0I have a cunning plan, lets bring the economies of the west to the nsame level as the LATAM countries is what Perceval is probably thinking
They really have become “tits on a bull”. This is like putting a plumber on the design team to build a rocket to Mars. ( no offense to plumbers)
Nov 03rd, 2014 - 10:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yes...time to dissolve the UN.
Nov 03rd, 2014 - 12:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”if we don't work together to address those economic models that perpetuate and deepen economic, social and cultural inequality among peoples and countries”
Nov 03rd, 2014 - 03:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thank god. Finally the UN is going to stop supporting neo-communist/socialist polices and econominc models.
Who'd a thought?
“ECOSOC has undergone reforms in the last decade to strengthen the Council and its working methods, giving special attention to the integrated and coordinated implementation of, and follow-up to, the outcomes of all major United Nations conferences summits in the economic, social, environmental and related fields.”
Nov 03rd, 2014 - 04:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ha, ha, ha, ha, they are having a giraffe here! They have fucked the environmental 'outcomes' for a start. And who would trust them with economics with the likes of TDC and Brazil on board?
Can't be that important if most people have never heard of it.
Nov 03rd, 2014 - 08:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is time to rewrite the UN Charter so that failed-states could be expelled from the system- instead of being elected and re-elected to UN bodies. Needless to list the
Nov 04th, 2014 - 02:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0well-known enemies of the UN.
Philippe
Argentina's ambassador before UN, Marita Perceval thanked the support from other countries in voting for Argentina and said that there is no chance of eliminating global poverty or conflicts' causes which have left 51.3 million refugees “if we don't work together to address those economic models that perpetuate and deepen economic, social and cultural inequality among peoples and countries”...
Nov 04th, 2014 - 09:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nice speech....then why doesn't she, and TMBOA who appointed her, start showing us how it's done - in their own backyard. Until they do, who the hell does she think she is, trying to tell the rest of the world how to act ?
Doesn't Argentina have ANY ambassadors that know what they are talking about ?
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