chaos takes the lead.
Re: UN Security Council Reform in 2020 (2008 edition)
chaos takes the lead.
Re: UN Security Council Reform in 2020 (2008 edition)
Not Chaos - I just want the dissolution of this body and the replacement of it by a new one.
"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
Re: UN Security Council Reform in 2020 (2008 edition)
And if non-democracies choose not to participate in your organization? If the Eastern countries look at it as too Western? I think most non-democracies will laugh at the "viewer status."
Re: UN Security Council Reform in 2020 (2008 edition)
there was a league of 'democracy' style option to choose in there.......... :)Originally Posted by TuffStuffMcGruff
Re: UN Security Council Reform in 2020 (2008 edition)
It said rotating veto only. That is not on the table so I wouldn't vote for it. Without a permanent veto for the EU and US it would fail.
Last edited by ICantSpellDawg; 08-12-2008 at 14:17.
"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
Re: UN Security Council Reform in 2020 (2008 edition)
Has the Georgia situation, and SC member actions with regards it prompted any further thought on reform?
Russia blocks U.N. Security Council draft on Georgia:
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldN...35087020080820
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