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International-UN-NGOs
OIC wants permanent UNSC seat
2005-06-30
Foreign ministers of the Organization of the Islamic Conference opened a meeting here on Tuesday with a call for a Muslim permanent seat on the UN Security Council. OIC Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu urged a greater role for Muslim countries in world affairs and demanded a 'permanent representation for the Islamic world on the UN Security Council'. "The Islamic world, which represents one-fifth of total mankind, cannot remain excluded from the activities of the Security Council which assumes a fundamental role in keeping security and peace in the world," he said. Mr Ihsanoglu had announced on Monday that ministers would discuss proposals for the representation of the 57-member body on the Security Council during their three-day conference in the Yemeni capital.
Posted by:Fred

#14  after Israel and Taiwan get one
Posted by: Frank G   2005-06-30 20:57  

#13  hahahaha stop your killing me! Please no more! this stuff is better than Sat nite live! Next thing osama will be their spoksman and al jazirra will be the official info ministery. oh geez this is funny! please tell them to stop.
Posted by: 49 pan   2005-06-30 20:10  

#12  Yeah. Look's like they already got the pony...
Posted by: tu3031   2005-06-30 15:49  

#11  .com:
Don't be knocking Aimee Semple McPherson. She had a certain sense of style, don't you think?

Posted by: Secret Master   2005-06-30 15:48  

#10  No fair. They've already got the French seat.
Posted by: Matt   2005-06-30 13:09  

#9  Gee, then we'll need to give one to the Vatican and those yahoos in Salt Lake City. We'd need a Hindu seat, and a Shinto seat. Not to mention those South American jungle tribes with the ,er, curious ideas of religion...
Posted by: mojo   2005-06-30 10:24  

#8  The only members of the UNSC should be "powers". Not just economic and military, but willing to commit a significant percentage of that military to UNSC goals. This means its membership should be the US, Russia, and China. Conditional on developing a military and deploying it, should be the EU and Japan. These should be the sum total of *voting* members. Three non-voting members would be ASEAN (excepting China and Japan), a South American bloc and an African bloc. If in future a Middle East Common Market is created, then it should also be included as a non-voting bloc. The motivation is for economically and militarily weak nations to join forces until they become de facto powers in their own right. Only then do they deserve anything akin to a veto. (And, if they do exhibit such growth, they would most likely no longer need the intervention of the UNSC in their territory.)
Posted by: Anonymoose   2005-06-30 10:22  

#7  You guys are too much. And here I wuz, thinking in simple terms like, don't you have to be a freakin' country (not a group bound by religion) to have a seat on the UNSC? Man, I guess I'm to red-state thinkin' in simple terms for the OIC.
Posted by: BA   2005-06-30 09:10  

#6  ...Rosecrucians, Santarians, Voodooists, Druids, Ra, Animists, Four Square, Snakehandlers, the ever popular Seventh Day Adventists...

[cue Jaws music]
*knock knock*
"Who is it?"
"Have you met Jesus?"
"Who?"
"Jehovah's Witnesses"
"Who?"
"Candygram"
Posted by: .com   2005-06-30 08:09  

#5  Negative, negative, negative....

They deserve a chance to take their rightful place on the UNSC. Put 'em on a waiting list, along with a seat for Catholics, Methodists, Orthodox Jews, Disciples of Christ, Hindus, Progressive Jews, Hare Krishnas, Presbyterians, Buddists, Hasedic Jews, Lutherans, Mormans, Wiccans, and Tom Cruise's Scientologists, among others....
Posted by: Bobby   2005-06-30 07:48  

#4  Mañana conveys too much of sense of urgency in relation to this proposal.
Posted by: phil_b   2005-06-30 06:53  

#3  Mañana, maybe, or the day after mañana. On second thought, well, NO.

Thank you.
Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom   2005-06-30 02:15  

#2  Lol - OIC - the gift that keeps on giving. Since the UN is as useless as tits on a boar hog, this is at least twice as funny. Or is it twice as funny because they don't realize the UN is worthless?

Don't they know you have to be this tall:
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to ride the Short Bus?
;D
Posted by: .com   2005-06-30 01:07  

#1  When hell freezes over then we might consider it...
Posted by: 3dc   2005-06-30 00:22  

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