Turkey fails in bid to join UN Security Council

[Jefferson23]

Spain beats Turkey in third ballot, will join Venezuela, New Zealand, Angola and Malaysia in UN's most powerful body.

By The Associated Press | Oct. 16, 2014

Venezuela, New Zealand, Spain, Angola and Malaysia were elected Thursday to coveted seats on the United Nations Security Council, while Turkey failed in its effort to join the UN's most powerful body.

Neither Turkey nor Spain got enough votes in the first or second ballot of the election by the General Assembly's member states. Spain made it in the third ballot. Special attention had been on Turkey as it is under growing pressure to do more about the war in Syria pushing up against its border.

The winners will join the council on January 1 and serve through 2016. The five will replace Argentina, Australia, Luxembourg, South Korea and Rwanda.

Venezuela's socialist government was unopposed for the single seat allocated to Latin America and the Caribbean. Angola was the only candidate for an African seat, and Malaysia had no opposition for an Asian seat.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/1.621201

[Krishna Vijaya]

1. A important victory for Israel.

The current Turkish prime minister would vote against Israel on anything. It is rather sad how two allies became estranged when an extremist took office.

[sabbat hunter]

3. So

it is not like they would have had a veto vote.

[King_David]

4. It would be better not to rely on a veto

I think ?

[King_David]

2. Good nt

[shaayecanaan]

6. Hardly

The Spaniards are pretty reliably pro-Palestinian in their positions.

The Security Council will be:-

Chad
Chile
Jordan
Lithuania
Nigeria
Spain
New Zealand
Angola
Malaysia
Venezuela

Of those, Malaysia, Venezuela, Spain, Angola, Jordan will be extremely unlikely to not favour any resolution brought by the Palestinians. Nigeria, Chad and Chile would find it reasonably difficult not to.

Assuming Chinese and Russian support, the Palestinians would have their two-thirds support in the Security Council, which makes things sticky as hell for the Americans should the Palestinians make another push for citizenship. They wouldnt even necessarily have to rely on French support.

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/10/netanyahu-abbas-un-security-council-sweden-binational-state.html

[King_David]

7. Erdogan's tiffs with Israel are not exactly circumstantial

His classmate from the first to the fifth grade was none other than the current Turkish prime minister, who is not known as a big fan of Israel. "I remember him very well: He came from a simple family and was an indrawn boy who would get angry very fast. He would walk around with a copy of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf,'"

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4507646,00.html


So yes it's a good thing until Erdogan dissapears from the scene...