In
UNSC race,
Finland PR
Tells ICP Has
165
Commitments,
Aussie Echo
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 16 --
Two days
before the UN
elections for
Security
Council seats,
Finland's
Permanent
Representative
Jarmo Viinanen
told
Inner City
Press his
country has
165 committed
votes.
Since
as also exclusively
reported
yesterday
supporters of
Luxembourg are
using
a figure of
150 promises,
this Finnish
count seemed
incongruous.
Inner City
Press replied
to Ambassador
Viinanen, "If
people can
be believed."
Viinanen
told
Inner City
Press, "I
cannot doubt
when my
colleagues and
my
friends say
that they will
support us. I
believe in
them."
By
this math,
even in the
light most
favorable to
Australia, it
could
get the 28
votes not
"committed" to
Finland, and
the 43
that
Luxembourg's
not claiming,
for a total of
71. While we
don't
expect a vote
count that
low, it would
be grist for a
growing debate
in Australia
if the country
over-spent in
its bid to
return to the
Security
Council.
In
the other,
Asia race Cambodia's
representative
Hor Nam Bora
has made
another pitch
to Inner City
Press, after
responses to
his first
and
surprising
candid
argument.
This one
includes:
"As
one of nearly
40% of UN
member states
which have
never served
on the
Security
Council and
been given the
opportunity to
influence
international
affairs at the
highest level,
Cambodia would
represent
a new voice --
one of the
world’s
smaller
countries."
We'll
have more on
this. Watch
this site.
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