At
World Cup in
Brazil, 60% of
UNSC But Only
16% of UN
Members
Will Play
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, June
1 -- In the
upcoming World
Cup in Brazil
later this
month, nine of
the
15 members of
the UN
Security
Council will
participate.
So 60% of the
Security
Council's
members will
be there,
while only 16%
of the UN's
193 member
states will
be.
Of
the five
Permanent
members of the
Security
Council, only
China won't
be there. Of
the Group of
4, only India
will be
absent. Of
countries
on the
Council's
agenda,
present in
Brazil will be
Iran and Cote
d'Ivoire, Bosnia
and Greece
(arguably on
due to the
Former
Yugoslav
Republic of
Macedonia
“name” issue).
In
Group B,
Security
Council
members
Australia and
Chile will
face off,
June 13 in
Cuiaba. In
Group H,
Russia and
South Korea
will play
there
on June 17 (South
Korea was
president of
the Security
Council for
May;
Russia is
president in
June.)
There
are few
ideological
battles, at
least in the
first round.
Iran is not
in in Group G
with the
United States
-- G is for
Germany, and
Portugal too
-- and the UK and
Argentina and
the Malvinas /
Falkland
Islands
dispute
are in
different
groups.
In
Group E,
France and
Ecuador might
at least
disagree when
they play June
25 in Rio
about regime
change and
the treatment
of migrants
on which Inner
City Press
asked the UN
on May 28, and
Paris'
new mayor Hidalgo
on May 29...
Watch this
site.
Footnote:
In
New York,
recently
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's golf
buddy
(along with
the UK and
South Korea)
San Marino's
ambassador
set up
another
pick-up game,
seemingly
including
Ukraine's
long-time
Permanent
Representative
Yuri Sergeyey,
next to Ban's
legacy striker
Kim
Won-soo. To
some, there
seems to have
been even less
diversity in
this group
that at the
World Cup...
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