UNcontested,
Japan,
Uruguay,
Senegal,
Ukraine &
Egypt Get
Seats, ICP Qs
All 5
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 15 --
In an election
without
competition
for five UN
Security
Council seats,
Japan, Egypt,
Uruguay,
Senegal and
Ukraine all
won two year
terms of the
Security
Council on
Thursday.
Senegal was
the top
vote-getter,
with 187,
followed by
Uruguay with
185. Japan got
184 votes and
Egypt 179.
Ukraine got
177.
Before the
voting,
President of
the General
Assembly
Mogens
Lykketoft told
the media what
NOT to
photograph.
But even
avoiding the
ballots, there
were bags by
Uruguay, a
small soccer
or football, a
blue swag bag.
Many came to
greet Egypt's
foreign
minister at
his seat;
Ukraine's
Pavlo Klimko
was in the
front row.
Japan stayed
calm in the
back. DPRK sat
alone.
After
the vote at
the stakeout,
Inner City
Press asked
Egypt's
foreign
minister
Shoukri about
Libya. He said
Egypt supports
UN Envoy
Leon's deal
and the
legitimate
government,
the House of
Representatives.
But what about
the GNC in
Tripoli?
Inner
City Press
asked
Senegal's
foreign
minister about
Burundi -- he
cited
deference to
regional
groupings --
and Yemen.
Inner City
Press asked if
Senegal
offered troops
to Saudi
Arabia. Yes,
but not
deployed to
Yemen, he
said. Video
here,
embedded below
Inner
City Press
asked Uruguay
about Haiti -
they are
committed -
and Ukraine's
Pavlo Klimkin
about MH17
(natch).
Inner City
Press asked
Japan's
Permanent
Representative
if changes to
his country's
military
defense law
will impact
its positions
in the
Security
Council and on
Peacekeeping.
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