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Antonio Guterres has Security Council support to become next UN Secretary General
Portugal’s former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres has unofficially been selected as the next U.N. Secretary-General. He is expected to be officially endorsed in the coming days. Following a decisive round of voting Wednesday in the U.N. Security Council, the veteran politician and diplomat prevailed with 13 votes in favor of his candidacy, none objecting to it and two votes of “no opinion”. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesSo which of the UN Security Council voting members do you suppose provided the vetoes of Malacara?
Oct 05th, 2016 - 10:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0She did even worse than Helen Clark on the “encourage” votes.
Sigh. All that lameculeando that Malacara did was for naught.
And making public statements showing her disapproval of fundamental democratic processes could not have helped.
You cant have a Secretary General of the UN who does not believe in Self-determination. The thought of having yet another Argentine woman ranting on about that Malvinas thing day in day out, I guess put a lot of people off in the end.
Oct 06th, 2016 - 06:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0She was still coming to terms with the usurpation and all those UN resolutions.
Oct 06th, 2016 - 09:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0It was hard to get her head around the facts: https://www.academia.edu/21721198/Falklands_1833_Usurpation_and_UN_Resolutions
The town of Venado Tuerto has evidently also rescinded their earlier offer of a part-time position for Malacara as assistant deputy weekend reserve dog-catcher. Apparently the dogs objected.
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@ 4 Marti Llazo
Oct 06th, 2016 - 05:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Apparently the dogs objected. ”
Clever dogs. :o)
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