Posted on 08/08/2007 10:43:38 AM PDT by processing please hold
Britain’s seat at the UN Security Council will eventually be handed to the European Union, Lord Malloch Brown, the Foreign Office Minister, has suggested.
The former diplomat was brought in by Gordon Brown to help to overhaul foreign policy was already under fire for suggesting that Britain and America would no longer be “joined at the hip”.
He faces fresh controversy after it emerged that last October, when he was Deputy General Secretary of the UN, he spoke approvingly of growing EU representation on a visit to Brussels last October.
According to a report by the EU Observer, he told Brussels diplomats that the EU was heading toward one single seat within the UN institutions. He said: “I think it will go in stages. We are going to see a growing spread of it institution by institution. It is not going to happen with a flash and a bang.” He added that he hoped that it would happen “as quickly as possible. I’m a huge fan of it.”
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Amen to that....
No problem with that ... I think that ALL of the countries that have given their sovereignty over to the EU should also give up their individual seats
Exactly. And when you have a shining nation built on a vision like America is, and you can be talked into disliking it, or not be happy with it - it says so much about the condition of mankind.
I recommend reading the Screwtape Letters, which is a CS Lewis book about how mankind is deceived. Yes, it’s written semi humorously from the point of view of a demon, but even an athiest can glean much from it. Very enlightening book.
That's the rub. Those countries in the EU want more than one vote. imo
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