SA eyes UN Security Council seat
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South Africa is ready to serve as a permanent member of a revamped UN Security Council, the foreign minister said as a campaign for expanding the UN&#39;s decision-making body heated up.
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Jacob Zuma, the new chairman of the African National Congress, will almost certainly succeed Thabo Mbeki as the leader of South Africaâs one-party democracy.
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UNITED NATIONS: India launched its bid for a permanent United Nations Security Council seat on Tuesday, saying that an increasing number of countries were supporting it and arguing that expanded membership was crucial for addressing new global threats.
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UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 2 -- The U.N. Security Council's five permanent members on Monday unanimously backed South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon's bid to become the United Nations' next secretary general, making it likely he will be endorsed next week by the 15-nation council as the world's top...
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Some of the five permanent members of  the United Nations Security Council are using their clout to  raise issues that do not belong in the decision-making body,  South Africa&#39;s foreign minister said on Tuesday.
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Sri Lanka&#039;s candidate for the UN secretary general post, Jayantha Dhanapala, is seeking the support of developing nations at this week&#039;s meeting of the 114-nation Non-Aligned Movement.
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NEW YORK: Though India, Brazil and Germany are widely regarded as potential candidates, the US is prepared to name only Japan for the permanent membership of the UN Security Council at this stage, according to the Secretary of State, Mr Colin Powell.
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Four nations have announced their intention to support each others&#39; candidacies as permanent members of the United Nations Security Council in an attempt to make the UN&#39;s executive body more representative and legitimate.
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A panel set up last year by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, is looking to make changes that will help combat new security threats in the world and add strength to the United Nations.
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The German government will step up its campaign to obtain a permanent United Nations Security Council seat at meetings next week in New York, said Karsten Voigt, who helps coordinate US relations for Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
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Former UN chief calls for a South African-style truth and reconciliation commission to help end Kenya's crisis.
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The Security Council hands South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon a second victory in a &quot;straw poll&quot; to select a successor to UN chief Kofi Annan, but the race remains wide open with more candidates expected to enter the fray.
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The Security Council handed South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon a second victory in a &quot;straw poll&quot; to select a successor to UN chief Kofi Annan, but the race remains wide open with more candidates expected to enter the fray.
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The UN Security Council  is to vote on a resolution designed to step up pressure on Sudan to bring peace to Darfur.
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UNITED NATIONS Washington wants the UN Security Council to meet next month at the site of peace talks in Kenya between rebels in southern Sudan and Khartoum's government, US Ambassador John Danforth said yesterday. Such a meeting would underline how important nailing down a peace deal in southern Sudan is to reaching overall peace across the vast northeast African nation, ...
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Egypt pressed Africa's case for permanent seats on a reformed UN Security Council and said it deserved to be considered for a place itself.
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CAIRO - Egypt&#39;s regional and international clout qualify it for a permanent seat on an expanded UN Security Council, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said on Saturday.