Posted by
Reeson on Monday, October 23, 2006 2:01:19 PM
The United Nations announced that voting for the lone remaining Security Council seat will begin again on October 25th. In the first 35 rounds of voting, neither Venezuela nor Guatemala was able to secure the number of votes necessary to win the rotating seat.
Of course, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez claimed this as some sort of victory because he prevented the U.S.-backed Guatemala candidacy from winning the seat. But in reality, Chavez lost, and lost terribly. He desperately wanted that seat as a forum for denouncing the United States in the Security Council for the next two years.
Now I guess Chavez will be relegated back to the cheap seats in the general assembly.