UN high moral ground

Italy's ambassador to the United Nations said Brazil, Germany, India and Japan were trying to ``blackmail'' UN member governments to support their bid for permanent seats on the Security Council in a scandal he said was worse than corruption of the Iraq oil-for-food program.

And this is being carried out by democratic member states; can you imagine what happens when the stakes are higher and the pressure groups are powerful dictatorships?

"What we are fighting for is to free a member state from fear of losing financial assistance and foreign development aid just because it would refuse to comply to requests of political allegiance by someone that is more powerful,"

For some reason it reminds me of France and Turkey before the liberation of Iraq…

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