Group of Four eyes Africa in UN council bid

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Mon Jul-18-05 11:28 PM
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Group of Four eyes Africa in UN council bid

Brazil, Germany, India and Japan said Sunday they won't seek a vote on their plan for UN Security Council reform until the end of July while they negotiate with the 53-nation African Union.

The four countries' foreign ministers, meeting in New York with several African officials, acknowledged that they didn't have the necessary two-thirds support of the 191-member UN General Assembly without the Africans, who have their own plan for council change.

"It is not possible for any group to get a majority or two-thirds by itself," India's Foreign Minister Natwar Singh said. "So we have to find a way in which our differences are not only narrowed but they disappear."

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/07/19/2003264139

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Mon Jul-18-05 11:57 PM
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1. Not nice to call anyone four-eyes.

Edited on Mon Jul-18-05 11:58 PM by applegrove

Just kidding. Trying to see if you were awake.

Seriously I would like to see A G20. Really.

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