England and France Favor Permanent Seat for Brazil at UN
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During a speech at the UN General Assembly yesterday, British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, said that Brazil should be a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell renewed Brazil&#39;s hopes of joining the UN Security Council by calling Brazil a good, serious and important candidate.
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UNITED NATIONS: The United States has supported Japan&#39;s bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council but is reserving judgement on other potential candidates, including friends Germany, Brazil and India, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said
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UNITED NATIONS, Oct 15: Japan, Argentina, Denmark, Greece and Tanzania were elected non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council by the UN General Assembly on Friday for two years.
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Brazil, the only bidding country, were named as the host nation of the 2014 World Cup finals by world soccer's governing body FIFA on Tuesday.
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Seeking more influence over global decisions, Brazil, Germany, India and Japan joined forces to lobby for a permanent U.N. Security Council seat and pledged to work together to reform the United Nations.
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France is pushing to win passage of a UN resolution that seeks an arms embargo and other penalties against the Ivory Coast. France&#39;s UN ambassador, Jean-Marc de la Sabliere, hopes for a vote early this week.
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Britain said Thursday the Security Council should be nearly doubled in size to 24 nations, with Germany, Japan, India and Brazil becoming permanent members.
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Support is growing for a bid by four influential countries for more permanent seats on the UN Security Council.
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Brazil, the only candidate, was set to be confirmed Tuesday as host of the 2014 World Cup.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - The United Nations and  Brazil moved on Monday to break a months-long deadlock over  inspections to verify Latin America's largest nation is not  diverting enriched uranium for weapons.
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By Patrick WorsnipUNITED NATIONS  - Libya, Vietnam, Croatia, Costa Rica and Burkina Faso were elected to nonpermanent seats on the United Nations Security Council for the years 2008-09 on Tuesday.In the voting for African and Asian seats, Libya, Vietnam and Burkina Faso were unopposed from the start and obtained the required two-thirds majority of votes in favor on the first ballot by the 192-member U.N. General Assembly.In contested races for single seats for Eastern Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean, Croatia and Costa Rica squared off against the Czech Republic and the Dominican Republic respectively. But they were voted in after their rivals faded in the second ballot and pulled out. Read more
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LONDON, Nov 18  - The leaders of France and Britain pledged Thursday to make reducing global warming a priority when London presides over the Group of Eight nations and the European Union next year.
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Russia&#39;s President Vladimir Putin said his country would back India&#39;s bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, stopping short of supporting the South Asian country&#39;s bid for veto power.
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Four countries that want permanent membership on an expanded U.N. Security Council &#151; Brazil, Germany, India and Japan &#151; vowed on Tuesday to support each other's bids and pledged to reform the United Nations.
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India, Japan, Germany and Brazil on Tuesday launched a joint bid for permanent seats in the expanded UN Security Council. The leaders of the four nations have vowed to work together and support each other&#39;s candidature.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged on Monday support for Brazil's bid to join an expanded United Nations Security Council in a boost for the Latin American nation's ambitions to increase its geopolitical influence.