Comments on: UNSC Bid Status: Third Report

By: IJ

IJ — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 13:05:09 +0000

News of China’s attitude to more members in the UNSC .

>China would block any move to give Japan, India, Brazil and Germany permanent seats in an enlarged UN Security Council, China’s UN ambassador Wang Guangya said.”It will split the house and destroy the unity and also derail the whole process of discussion on big UN reforms,” Wang said.India, Japan, Germany and Brazil say that all of the new permanent members should have the same right to veto a resolution as the current five permanent members: Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States. But the United States has opposed extending the veto.

By: The Acorn » Curzon’s Report on UNSC expansion

The Acorn » Curzon’s Report on UNSC expansion — Fri, 20 May 2005 06:48:59 +0000

[...] evelopments around the UNSC expansion on the Coming Anarchy. Here’s a chart from his third report.

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By: IJ

IJ — Thu, 19 May 2005 18:53:54 +0000

>The US is against Germany’s bid to get a permanent seat in the UN Security Council believing the European Union is already sufficiently represented in the powerful body. . . “In many respects, Europe already had a common foreign policy, and that needed to be taken into account in the Security Council”, continues the memorandum. . . The last time the body [UNSC] came to the international fore was during the run-up to the Iraq war when the two EU members – the UK and France – were firmly pitted against one another.

By: Kamesh

Kamesh — Sun, 15 May 2005 17:35:06 +0000

Russia supports India’s candidacy with Veto.

Thers a strong case for India to join UNSC. It is the
1) Worlds largest democracy.
2) A nation with 1 billion people +

and the list can go on and on…

By: IJ

IJ — Sun, 15 May 2005 16:02:47 +0000

Any plans for a politically integrated world sits uneasily with the very real possibility of war between the United States and China.