Posted on 08/27/2006 12:28:51 AM PDT by jdm
CARACAS, Venezuela --Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said his country is gaining broad support in its bid for a U.N. Security Council seat, even as the United States tries to persuade governments to vote against Venezuela.
Speaking by phone from China on Sunday, Chavez told Venezuelan state television that his government is scoring "big victories" in its effort to obtain a rotating seat on the Security Council. He noted that Chinese President Hu Jintao endorsed Venezuela's campaign on Thursday, and said other countries in areas from the Caribbean to Africa have also pledged their backing.
"I am sure that support is going to continue growing," Chavez told state television, speaking from the eastern Chinese city of Jinan.
U.S. officials, alarmed by Chavez's deepening ties with countries like Iran and North Korea, are backing Guatemala for the U.N. seat instead. The race is expected to be decided by the General Assembly in a secret ballot in October.
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He's lying. It's a secret ballot vote so a lot of countries are smiling and taking his cheap prooffered oil, and are planning to stab him in the back without consequence.
No one trusts this thug. He's going to lose massively.
The U.N....The BIG TURD in the punchbowl called life....
How could it be worse?
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