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Merkel: UN Security Council needs reform
TheLocal.de ^ | 26 Sep 2015 19:45 GMT+02:00 | (AFP)

Posted on 09/27/2015 7:07:57 AM PDT by Olog-hai

German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined leaders from Brazil, India and Japan on Saturday to push for seats in a revamped UN Security Council that they said would do a better job of addressing global crises.

Meeting on the sidelines of a UN development summit, the so-called G4 said they were “legitimate candidates” to become permanent Security Council members and backed each other’s candidacy. […]

There have been mounting calls for changes to the powerful UN council, which has been deeply divided over how to address the war in Syria, now in its fifth year with more than 240,000 dead. …

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: brazil; india; iran; japan; lebanon; merkel; redchina; rop; unsc

1 posted on 09/27/2015 7:07:57 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

The first step should be to remove any members with a xenophobic genocidal religion that commands them to murder non members.


2 posted on 09/27/2015 7:11:35 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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To: Olog-hai

Because shattering European nationalism and culture is just not enough of a goal for Merkel ...

And because the larger a committee is, the better it runs things ....


3 posted on 09/27/2015 7:23:10 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: rawcatslyentist

Good first step.

Second one ought to be removal of members with any shade of Marxism in their “governance”.

Third step is a total rewrite of the UN Charter so that it is no longer a clone of the 1936 USSR constitution.

(And then we wouldn’t have the useless UN anymore.)


4 posted on 09/27/2015 7:25:08 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Sure it needs reform but Merkel is definitely not a good origin of such reform.

5 posted on 09/27/2015 7:35:46 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Olog-hai

I prefer “UN Security Council needs a new zipcode”, myself.


6 posted on 09/27/2015 7:52:57 AM PDT by Fireone (BLM?.....#NTD (no they don't!))
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To: Olog-hai

All permanent members of the Security Council sbould pay equal dues. If I remember correctly Japan and Germany were the cause of the U. N.


7 posted on 09/27/2015 3:11:49 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (CA the sanctuary state for stupid.)
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