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Libya Elected to UN Security Council
Real estate news By TheTrumpet.com
October 18, 2007
On Tuesday, Libya was elected by an overwhelming majority to the world’s premier security body. Claiming 178 out of a possible 192 votes from United Nations members, the former state sponsor of terrorism joined Vietnam, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica and Croatia as one of the five rotating members due to take their seats on January 1, 2008. These five nations will join five others that have another year on the council as well as its five permanent members: the United States, China, France, Russia and the United Kingdom. The appointment of Libya, a country with a prolific history of terrorist activity, is the latest in a string of ludicrous decisions made by the body intended to regulate international peace and security.
Earlier this year, Syria was elected as recording secretary of the UN Disarmament Commission, and also elected as deputy chairman of the General Conference of the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, just as its own nuclear ambitions started coming under close scrutiny. In addition, Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe was appointed to the chair of the Commission for Sustainable Development even when his government had all but destroyed the country’s sustainable wealth in the course of one generation. Then there was the shocker of Iran’s re-election to the senior office of vice chairman of the UN Disarmament Commission just as Tehran was outwardly discussing and engaging in enhancing its own nuclear ability.
Now Libya is on the UN council responsible for maintaining international peace and security, when less than 20 years ago Libyan agents orchestrated the infamous Lockerbie bombing, which saw 270 people killed as Pan-Am Flight 103 went down over northern Scotland. These appointments would be laughable if they were not so fraught with potential disaster. In Libya’s case, Tripoli has tried desperately to remove its dirty image created by the bombing, and its election is seen by some as reward for good behavior. Following Lockerbie, the UN imposed sanctions, and Libya eventually admitted civil responsibility and promised to pay reparations to the families of the victims.
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