Posted on 06/28/2016 1:54:03 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
In a foreign policy speech in Hamburg on Monday, Steinmeier announced that Germany would campaign for a non-permanent seat in 2019 and 2020. The country last held a Security Council seat from 2011 to 2012. Diplomats will seek support for Germany's candidacy before an election is held in mid 2018. Germany's application would require approval from at least two thirds of the 193 states in the UN General Assembly to be successful.
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No.
They can annex France’s seat
The UN Security Council is anachronistic, a remnant of the world after WWII. Germany with the world’s fourth largest economy should be on it permanently. So should Japan. Why should Russia have a veto and a permanent seat? There should be an EU seat instead of France.
they still crave power
How's about we open each U.N. General Assembly meeting with a couple of verses of Panzerlied?
wait a second there’s no Germany , it’s the EU Super State ,so they should get ONE SEAT
Agreed. The ‘Kraut’ sentiment on this thread notwithstanding.
I think we should let Germany have the seat, right after we leave the UN and kick it the hell out of what’s left of our country.
True colors....But it’s in the leadership. A lot of the people have been revolting.
France should give up its seat and have one seat for the EU if France and Germany mean what they say about the EU.
Or are their statements about the EU totally one-sided?
” They can annex Frances seat “
I can “Not-See” what you did there...
The Sudetenland as well................
Germany can have all the seats, and the drapes along with all of the so called “diplomats” that stink up the joint.
http://ingeb.org/refer/diefahne.MP3
Some of us, “of an age” will remember this catchy little tune with a shudder! A warning to all you younger Freepers, the Huns haven’t changed one bit!
How about no. They gave us Nazism. Sent Lenin into Russia to have his revolution. They destabilized Ukraine and got the coup running and its resultant civil war. And now they are flooding Europe with moslems.
The last thing the world needs is German “peace”.
Blockheads.
Because they build nice cars, electronics, sausages and beer. They are nice people in many ways.
And they are the very worst the planet has to offer politically. Also they don’t contribute fighting forces to UN actions. Where they do, its a teeny highly restricted force that doesn’t do real combat. That’s why Germany should never be on the security council.
“Also they dont contribute fighting forces to UN actions. Where they do, its a teeny highly restricted force that doesnt do real combat.”
As a stipulation to the end of the war in Europe, Germany was disallowed a military.
>>Why should Russia have a veto and a permanent seat?
You are perhaps unaware of their still rather significant nuclear arsenal?
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