[SF Republican]

powerful body ??????????

[areafiftyone]

The Council is composed of five permanent members — China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States — and ten non-permament members (with year of term's end):

Argentina (2006) Greece (2006) Qatar (2007) Congo (Republic of the) (2007) Japan (2006) Slovakia (2007) Denmark (2006) Peru (2007) United Republic of Tanzania (2006) and Ghana (2007)

[saganite]

the powerful body?

LOL! Yeah, that's the powerful body that threatened Hussein for ten years then refused to enforce it's own resolutions.

[pissant]

Thank God for GWB and his appt of John Bolton. Can you imagine the scenario with a President Kerry?

[Izzy Dunne]

setting the stage for the first action by the powerful body

Ooooh!
Ooooh!

The stage is set for a possible future action!

By a POWERFUL BODY, no less!

Take THAT, Mr. Iwannajihad!

[d-informed-1]

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The five U.N. Security Council permanent members reached agreement on Wednesday on how to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions after concessions were made to Russia and China, Britain announced.


"Our colleagues in the P-5 (permanent five) have reached an agreement on a text," Britain's U.N. Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry told reporters. The five are the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China.

The full 15-member council considers the issue later on Wednesday and could formally approve the statement, hours before ministers of the five powers and Germany meet in Berlin.

[camle]

'yawn!' so what? are they going to DO anything about it other than jaw?

[Sax]

STOP, or we'll say STOP again.

[Frank_N_Sense]

Bet we had to give Mexico to china for their vote. We can also give France to Russia IMHO

[Visalia]

Iran is quaking in their proverbial boots. What will Condi say?

[Joe Boucher]

Yeah budy and you can just see Iran trembling in their bruno Maglios worrying about the f-ing u.n.

[carl in alaska]

Thnx for the alert. Oil stocks traders don't seem to know how to react to this news yet. Oil stocks went down first and then bounced back up. I think this could cause a dip in the price of crude oil because this makes a diplomatic solution somewhat more likely.

[rhombus]

What's absent here? An "or else" phrase perhaps?

[pgkdan]

first action by the powerful body

LOL! Powerful body???

[Billthedrill]

Whooee - if the UN is a "powerful body" then I'm Mr. Universe. Nevertheless, it's good to see a consensus even if I tend to doubt Ahmadinejad is trembling in his Birkenstocks.

[Lunatic Fringe]

setting the stage for the first action by the powerful body over fears that Tehran wants a nuclear weapon.

BWAHAHAHAHA!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

This will keep the Mullahs up nights.

[Adam-ondi-Ahman]

Well, the Iranians are readying their response:

"Iran is to launch a massive joint naval wargame titled "Holy Prophet (PBUH)", beginning on March 31 with shooting of a Shahab II Missile into the air with the message of "Peace and Friendship" for the regional countries, Persian Gulf, and Sea of Oman littoral states..."

Link

[joesnuffy]

Next war tell Jorge to draft the illegal aliens to fight it..

imo

[PISANO]

Amazing they can agree on a statement but really it means little. Iran will ignore it and then the "POWERFUL BODY" will really FLEX it's muscles, with RESOLUTION after RESOLUTION after RESOLUTION.............ad infinitum!