Doesn't Brazil have any friends?
The results of long-awaited vote on non-permanent members of the Security Council are in, and pretty humiliating they are for Madagascar and Brazil:
"In Group A, Iran got 32 votes, Japan got 158 votes, Uganda 181, and Madagascar 2 votes. For the Latin American and Caribbean States, Mexico got 185 votes and Brazil 1 vote. And for the Western European there were two seats, as you know, Austria got 133, Iceland 87 and Turkey 151. And there was no need to go to a second ballot because they got two thirds of the majority".
OK, we all know that an awful lot of log-rolling goes on, but one would have thought that Brazil could have counted on the other Portugese speaking nations to have its back. I wonder where Madagascar's charm offensive has been paying off....
"In Group A, Iran got 32 votes, Japan got 158 votes, Uganda 181, and Madagascar 2 votes. For the Latin American and Caribbean States, Mexico got 185 votes and Brazil 1 vote. And for the Western European there were two seats, as you know, Austria got 133, Iceland 87 and Turkey 151. And there was no need to go to a second ballot because they got two thirds of the majority".
OK, we all know that an awful lot of log-rolling goes on, but one would have thought that Brazil could have counted on the other Portugese speaking nations to have its back. I wonder where Madagascar's charm offensive has been paying off....
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Perhaps they should have offered a year's free supply of coffee as an inducement?
Uganda?
AA - That might well have swayed my voting....
JH - I wonder how Kampala feels about being bested by Mexico City.
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