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Old 12-16-2006, 09:35 AM   #7 (permalink)
northface
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Originally Posted by crooks View Post
I'm just wondering what the general opinion is on a important issue fot the UN.

For those unaware, G4 is an organisation of 4 nation's who wish for permenant seats on the UN security council.

They are:

Japan
India
Brazil
Germany

I firmly believe they have a valid case (japan and germany are the UN's two biggest contributors, Brazil would be a vital 3rd world ambassador and India is the world's largest democracy).

Any thoughs?

They do have a case. It's plain stupid to consider the UN a representative organization of nations where India (1/6th of humanity) and the largest secular democracy in the world has the same vote as Burkina Faso. Why Maoist China that had before the 80's a lesser per capita income than India would be considered to have a veto in affairs and India not. The UN loses it's relevence without India. I consider it demeaning that a dictatorship like China sits in the security council and decides or veto's on resolutions on a truly democratic, representative and secular country like India. Makes no sense to me. In my opinion India should not have been in the UN at all.
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