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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Jul 6 13:28:46 2008 what funIslamic Nations Eye UN Security Council Seats(but there's only one ummah!) Islamic nations should be represented in an expanded U.N. Security Council "in proportion to their membership of the United Nations," according to foreign ministers of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). In a resolution passed at a meeting in Uganda last week, the ministers pointed to size of the Islamic bloc in the international community, noting that its members make up "one-fifth of the world population." Any proposal to reform and enlarge the U.N. Security Council "which neglects the adequate representation of the Islamic Ummah in any category of membership ... will not be acceptable to the Islamic World," they said. "The OIC's demand for adequate representation in the Security Council is in keeping with the significant demographic and political weight of the OIC member states." ==== but the ummah or kaliph means ONE big nation. Therefore one seat! ---------- One model suggested by an expert panel appointed by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, for instance, would establish six new permanent seats - two each for Africa and Asia, and one each for Europe and the Americas. An alternative model discussed by the panel would add no permanent seats, but create a new, semi-permanent tier of eight seats -- two each from Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, occupied for four-year stints, and subject to renewal. Neither of the models put forward envisages seats earmarked for non-geographic groups, such as a bloc of Islamic nations. The resolution passed in Uganda leaves unstated exactly how many seats in an expanded Security Council the OIC would want set aside for Islamic states, but to satisfy the demand of being represented "in proportion to their membership of the United Nations," it could arguably press for 30 percent of the seats. (Of the 192 U.N. member-states, 56 are OIC members. An "independent" Palestinian state would push the number up to 57.) --- I added the quotes. Will they subtract one when Lebanon becomes officaly Syria or Iran? |
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