Posted on 06/17/2020 4:31:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Ireland has won a seat for a two-year term on the United Nations Security Council.
Ireland competed against Canada and Norway for two seats on the council after ballots were cast and counted at the UN General Assembly in New York.
A total of 191 countries voted. Ireland needed a two-thirds majority, or 128 votes, to win and have obtained the the number required.
Norway also secured a seat on the council.
President Michael D. Higgins has welcomed the result of the vote, saying that Ireland ran a campaign which did not avoid the global issues that are urgent.
Mr. Higgins said that the campaign engaged with issues “such as peace-building and peacekeeping, the elimination of global poverty, the strengthening of multilateralism, and reform of the United Nations.” …
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A country that thought Hitler wasn’t so bad, and stayed neutral during WWII, SMH!
Maybe they just now found enough sober Irish men to serve.
(ducking for cover)
Ireland has drifted relentlessly leftward for years. Sad. But now they have their reward.
Just another tawdry little European cesspool.
Probably an anti-Israel, pro China vote.
two leftist countries on the security council. how great for the world.
get the us out of the un
When the security council gets so large that even little powerless countries can get on it and gain the power to veto everything at the UN, the UN is officially worthless.
And overwhelmingly supports Palestinian terrorists over Israel.
How do you account for the fact that the United Nations Charter follows the format of the Russian (USSR) Constitution of 1936 rather than the format of the (Covenant of the) League of Nations? Would you feel there was any significance in the fact that the general secretary for the organization which drew up the charter was Alger Hiss? …The UN was worthless from its outset. Hiss designed it as a vehicle through which to destroy the USA.
— The Naked Communist, Chapter 8
The Security Council is still the same size it has always been.
Wins? Was there a lottery for it or something?
Well, it also helps if a country has the proper, trendy and politically-correct hatred for t3h j00000z (oops, I mean the “Zionists”)
Ireland’s Got Talent.
So true. My cousins are farmers and another works for a prominent international company. All socialists. Sad!
God made whiskey so the Irish won’t rule the world!
More Irish Americans have fought and spelled blood in the Civil, WW1 & WW2 than any other nationality. They were/are our cops, firemen. priests and pub owners most I know like me are conservatives ( the old country has always been screwed up )
Exactly! All the good ones came over here. That's probably why the old country is being run into the ground.
lee martel is right - Canada should have gotten the seat.
Ireland’s neutrality in WWII was her shining moment; they were only in WWI because they were occupied by England, and the Easter rebellion occurred in the middle of the war (1916). Irish volunteers had fought for Franco in Spain, and they understood what type of allies Churchill had in the USSR. 8,000 priests, hundreds of nuns, and a dozen bishops killed in Spain for their faith - and the war ended there the same year WWII started (for England) - 1939.
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