4 nations lobby jointly for permanent seats
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UNITED NATIONS - Japan, Brazil, Germany and India formed a lobbying group to help one another get permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council and head off proposals that might work against them.
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by our Internet desk, 24 August 2004. Japan&#39;s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi says he will press his country&#39;s case for a permanent UN Security Council seat when he addresses the annual session of the General Assembly next month.
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A regional conference in Baghdad on Saturday aims to rally support behind the Iraqi government and map out ways to cooperate in easing the country's bloody conflict. But the participants are coming in with starkly different agendas. The session gathers diplomats from Iraq's Arab neighbors as well as Iran, Turkey, the United States and the four other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council.
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MEPs call on EU member states to hold simultaneous referendums on the new European Constitution.
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With ten new members added into the fold and a new draft constitution working its way through capitals for ratification, the European Union (EU) is in the midst of unprecedented political and geographic ...
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Britain backs bids by Brazil, Germany, India and Japan for permanent seats on the UN Security Council, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said.
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The president in his second term is reaching out to other nations, though reservations remain about groups like the UN.
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More than 50 nations issued a   plea on Wednesday for 10 more countries to ratify a 10-year old   treaty banning nuclear tests, a step that would transform an   informal moratorium into a binding commitment.
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Russia, China, Britain, France, Germany and dozens of other countries have rallied to support beleaguered U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan after a U.S. senator called for his resignation &#151; but the United States has stayed quiet.
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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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Argentina, Denmark, Greece, Japan and Tanzania are the next non-permanent Security Council members.
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Egypt's regional and international clout qualify it for a permanent seat on an expanded U.N. Security Council, Egypt's foreign minister said Saturday.
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Brazil, Germany, India and Japan launched a joint bid for permanent seats on a reformed UN Security Council, saying in a statement that they backed each other's candidacies.
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UNITED NATIONS: The United States has supported Japan&#39;s bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council but is reserving judgement on other potential candidates, including friends Germany, Brazil and India, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations today expressed support for Japan&#39;s bid to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, a Japanese government official said.
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The UN has chosen Argentina, Denmark, Greece, Japan and Tanzania as the five states to become non-permanent members of the Security Council next year.
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South Africa ranks among a handful of United Nations members in serious contention for a permanent seat on an expanded UN security council, and cannot afford to appear aloof from the momentous changes taking place in the Middle East.