Uruguay voted in as non permanent member of UN Security Council

Friday, October 16th 2015 - 08:34 UTC

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In one round of voting the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday elected Egypt, Japan, Senegal, Ukraine and Uruguay to serve as non-permanent members on the Security Council for two-year terms beginning on 1 January 2016. Read full article

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Enrique Massot
Go Charruas!
Oct 16th, 2015 - 07:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
At least the grown-ups have a veto on the “children” turning their infantile self-serving 'proposals' into reality.

May that never change.
Oct 16th, 2015 - 09:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Enrique Massot
#2 ChrisR
“Infantile self-serving proposals...”
Infantile, dismissive words, Chris.
A perfect case of the pot calling the kettle black.
Oct 17th, 2015 - 02:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
@ 3 Riki MPH

What is it with you, do you fancy men or are you just an idiot after all?

You know nothing in practice about The Dark Country, your actually experience is 40 YO until you ran away to Canada, never to return.
Oct 17th, 2015 - 11:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Brasileiro
“May that never change.”
Lol

So the UN has no usefulness.

We will create another UN without three of the “big”. Guess what!
Oct 17th, 2015 - 12:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pete Bog
@5
“We will create another UN without three of the “big”. Guess what!”

Then you can stump up more money to fund the UN, you tightwads.
Oct 17th, 2015 - 12:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Brasileiro
Pay for what is not ours? Pay for what does not represent us?

You pay all!
Oct 17th, 2015 - 01:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Clyde15
#7
Without the big three ?
What good will that do you. You will have absolutely NO power, influence and still have to kow tow to the big three when they tell you.
Get real !!
Oct 17th, 2015 - 07:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Conqueror
@3. Worth recalling that, in the days of the League of Nations, argieland left the League in 1921 when it couldn't get its own way. Then, in 1982, argieland ignored UN Security Council resolution 502. ALL members are supposed to comply with UNSC resolutions. “Infantile self-serving proposals...” is quite accurate in the case of argieland. Why is even a member?
@5. Go ahead and give it a try. How many would you create? It always seems to me that south america has more “inter-governmental” organisations than there are letters in the aphabet. How do you go about it? Is it a case of deciding what letters you haven't used in a while and then thinking up something that fits? Face it, you can't even form a decent government in your own country.
@7. If you don't pay, you can leave. No-one will miss you.
Oct 18th, 2015 - 11:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Philippe
Now South America is represented in the UNSC by its 2-best countries:
Uruguay and Chile!

Philippe
Oct 18th, 2015 - 07:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pete Bog
@5
“We will create another UN without three of the “big”. Guess what!”

and:

@7“Pay for what is not ours? Pay for what does not represent us?

You pay all!”

You have just stated you want to create your own UN without the big three so surely your 'replacement three' will represent you?

Therefore if the big three go, your big three will have to pay up.

Good luck with that if one of your big three in the UN is Argentina, because your organisation will have no money with which to operate, and will be begging to the big three.# for funding.

so: therefore:
@8“Without the big three ?
What good will that do you. You will have absolutely NO power, influence and still have to kow tow to the big three when they tell you.”

Your best contribution to the world would be halting the destruction of your rainforest.
Oct 20th, 2015 - 07:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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