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| UN rejects TaiwanÂ’s bid for membership |
| 2007-09-20 |
| UNITED NATIONS - A key General Assembly committee rejected Taiwan’s bid to join the United Nations on Wednesday, the 15th straight year the island has been thwarted in its attempt to become a member of the world body. The assembly’s General Committee met behind closed doors, instead of in public, for the first time in years to vote on 167 recommendations for the agenda of the 62nd session, which opened Tuesday, including Taiwan’s membership. “The General Committee ... decided not to recommend this (Taiwan) item as part of the agenda of the 62nd session,” said Janos Tisovszky, spokesman for the assembly president. He said 25 of the 28 members on the General Committee voted against a proposal “urging the Security Council to process Taiwan’s membership application.” Only three countries, which he did not name, voted in favor. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #11 Wasn't that the Giuliani with a beard? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-09-20 14:20 |
| #10 Wan't Giuliani the one who said "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy"? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2007-09-20 13:10 |
| #9 We. Have. To. Stop. Paying. For. This. Evil. Guillani seems to have a position on just about everything--has he made a stand about the UN yet? |
| Posted by: Crusader 2007-09-20 12:40 |
| #8 Taiwan's prez that is. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-09-20 10:18 |
| #7 About 3/4 of the folks in Taiwan are happy that it was not granted under the current Prez. They didn't want to hear him crowing about it for decades. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-09-20 10:17 |
| #6 Wouldn't want to have a prosperous, democratic Asian economic powerhouse hanging around making so many of the other members look like the perennial world-class losers they are. Can't have that, now can we? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-09-20 09:50 |
| #5 This would be the same Republic of China (Taiwan) which was a founding member of the United Nations Well, sort of. It was the authoritarian government of Chiang Kai-shek. Not much closer to a republic than many of the aforementioned states. They kept the government and 'elected' officials from the mainland in power for decades well after every one else knew they weren't going home.* Open 'democratic' elections took a lot longer before you could reasonable classify it as a 'Republic'. However, unlike most of the 'aforementioned' regimes, it did successfully transition to a democratic structure. *And the island was just 'liberated' from Japan who'd occupied it since the Sino-Japanese War of the prior century. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-09-20 09:26 |
| #4 This would be the same Republic of China (Taiwan) which was a founding member of the United Nations. We. Have. To. Stop. Paying. For. This. Evil. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-09-20 09:07 |
| #3 The UN. Home to dictators, communists and tyrants. Free nations need not apply. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-09-20 07:54 |
| #2 Lovely! Angola, LAO PDR, Rwanda, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe.... all welcome, but not a democratically elected government such as Taiwan? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2007-09-20 03:17 |
| #1 TAIWAN's options remains the same - can either unilater declare full independence and sovereignty from China, as suppor by POPULAR REFERENDUM; OR it can over time await the winner of the US-China competition for domination of the Pacific. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-09-20 01:13 |