Africa: Claims for UN Seats Still in Limbo

African leaders have voiced their concerns at the failure to address demands for two permanent seats for the continent in the most powerful body at the UN.

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The UN General Assembly.



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  • ogkfgkjgjk
    Oct 16 2012, 09:04

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  • ras sideeq
    Oct 18 2012, 07:50

    I AGAIN SAY TO AFRICA THERE WILL BE NO SEAT ON THIS SO CALLED INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SECURITY COUNCIL SEAT. LET US LOOK AGAIN AT HOW FOOLISH AFRICAN LEADERS ARE AFTER BEING SNUBBED BY THE WEST DURING THIER DESTRUCTION OF BOTH IVORY COAST AND LIBYA; AFRICAN LEADERS ARE AGAIN BEGGING FRANCE TO INTERVENE IN AFRICA ?????????N HOW DUNCE!!!!!! LET US BE CLEAR DURING THE PAST YEAR THE POLICIES OF FRANCE HAS BEEN NONE OTHER THAN MALICIOUS RECONTROL OF THIER LOST COLNIES IN WEST AFRICA. THE FRENCH HAS A POST IN THE GOVERNMENT OF QUATARRA; HE IS BACKED BY THE UN AND FRENCH TROOPS??? THIS IS ABSOLOUTELY DISGRACEFUL! I CAN IMAGINE THAT THIS MINISTER IN IVORY COAST IS PUSHING THE HARDEST FOR THIS RESOLUTION??? WE HAVE HEARD FROM THE MALIANS, THEY DO NOT WANT ANY INETRFERNCE YET ECOWAS IS GOING AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF THE NATION TO AGAIN ENTERTAIN WESTERN BACKED MURDERS CRIMINAL REINITTIATION OF WESTERN VALUES IN THIS NATION. THE NATION AS IT STANDS AT THE MOMENT HAS NO INETERST IN SPREADING ANY OF THIER ISLAMIST PHILSOSOPHY IN THE REGION. WHAT WE MUST OVERSATND IS THAT THERE IS ORDER IN MALI THERE ARENT ANY DRUNKS ANY IMMORALITIES, ANY STEALING ANY CORRUPTION SO WHEN WE SPEAK WE MUST SPEAK WITH KNOWLEDGE"" IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT THESE THINSG THE WET DO NOT LIKE THEYWANT AFRICANS TO BECOME DRUNKARDS DRUG ABUSERS MENTALLY WEAK AND DEFENSELES EMOTIONALY. THE IDEOLOGY OF ISLAM IS NOT NECESSARILY RADICAL AS THE WEST WANTS TO EMPHASISE. WHAT WE HAVE SEEN SO FAR IN NORTH MALI IS THE DESTRUCTION OF BARS ENETRTAINMENT WHERE ALCOHOL IS SERVED THEY HAVE REMOVED HARLOTRY YOUNG WOMEN ARE NOW FOPRCED TO RESPECT THEMSELVES BE MORE CONSCIOUS OF HOW THEY CARRY THEMSELVES THEY ARE EXPECTED TO BSERVE THE QUARAAN IN THE ADMINISTARTION OF MARRIAGE BEING THE CATALYST FOR ROMANCE SEX AD CHILD BIRTH. THE THOUGHST OF HAVING SEX UN MARRIED OR EVEN CARRYING ON WITH SOEM ONE MARRIED IN A ADULTERUS RELATIONSHIP IS PUNISHABLE. THE WEST FROWNS UPON THESE MORAL STANDARDS WHY?? THIER CODE OF CONDUCT IS VERY LOSEVERY CARE FREE VERY DESTRUCTIVE. BECAUSE OF THESE TYPES OF PRACTICES WE SEE MRE VENERIAL DISEASES WE SEE MORE YOUNG CHILDREN BEING PREGNANT, WE SEE THE UNDERMINING OF THE FAMILY UNIT. AFRICA WAS ONE OF EARTHS LEADING PEOPLE WHEN IT CAME TO FAMILY WE WERE ALL BORN AS CHILDREN OF OUR DIRECT FAMILY MEMBERS BUT ALSO WE WERE THE CHILDREN OF THE IMEDIATE COMMUNITY WE LIVED IN.. ADULTS HAD A PREMIMUM RIOLE IN THE UPBRINGING OF ALL CHILDREN WITHIN OUR COMMUNITIES. RES PECT WAS PRIMARY OUR ELDEWRS WERE HELD IN GREAT REFARD AND WE WOULD NOT DEFY OUR ELDERS. WESTERN INFUSION HAS UNDERMINED THE FAMILY IN AFRICA WE ARE ALL TODAY LIVING THIS SELFISH LIFE STYLE WHERE NO ONE CUNTS BUT MY SELF!!! IT HAS BECOME A DOG EAT DOG RELATIONSHIP. WE SEE THIS IDEA PRACTICED WITHIN GOVERNMENTS WHO ALLOW THEMSELVES TO BE COME VASSELS OF THEW WEST ACCEPTING MONEY INSTEAD OF PASSING THE KNWOLEDGE TO THE PEOPLE ALLOWING FOR THE NATION TO REACT AS A FAMILY MAKING DIFFICULT DECISIONS AND PROGRESSING WITH THE PRIMARY INETERST OF THE NATION. WE SEE THE REVERSE WE SEE AFRICANS SELLING OUT NOT ALLOWING FOR THE CONTINENT TO MAKE STUDIOUS R5EFORMS THAT WILL BENIFIT THE ENTIRE CONTIENENT BRINGING THE WHOLE CONTINENT FORWARTD WITH DEVELOPMENT GROWTH, TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, SCIENTIFIC TRANSFER. AFRICA IS IN A VERY UNIQUE PLACE WE HAVE BEEN IGNORE INTENTIONALY WHILE THE EARTH STUTTERED AROUND WE HAVE SEEN ALL THIER MISTAKES IT WOULD BE A SIN IF AFRICANS DECIDED TI WALK AND TAKE THE SAME STEPS THAT WE SAW HAS DESTROYED THE WEST AND THIER ECONOMIES. AFRICANS MUST STAND UP IN THE FRONT ROW AND DEMAND A SEAT AT THE UN NOT BEG AND BOW AND MAKE THEM THINK THEY ARE DOING YOU A FAVOUR. I KEEP SAYING TO AFRICA MAKE THE AFRICAN UNION RELEVANT MAKE IT TRULY REFGLECTIVE OF AFRICAN IDEALS . LEADERS FROM THE ENTIRE CONTINENT MUST SEAT THEMSELVES UP RIGHT AND START TO PUT ON PAER WHAT THIER ASPIRATIONS FOR AFRICA IS NOT JUST THIER IMEDIATE NATIONS BUT THE CONTINENT AND HOW THEY PERCEIVE THEMSELVES TO BE PERCEIVED BY THE WORLD'. FIRST THEY MUST STYAND UNITED TH4EY MUST STOP ASKING FOR MONEY FROM THE WEST THIS MUST STOP. THE WEST WILL CONTINUE TO LOOK AT YOU LIKE FOOLS THEY WILLS SAY TO THEMSELVES THEY KNWOW WE ARE EXTORTING THEM, THEY KNOW WE ARE NOT BEING FAIR WITH THEM ,THEY KNOW WE ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THEM, THEY KNOW WE ARE UNPRINCIPLED TOWARDS THEM,'YET THEY STILL WANT TO ACCEPT THESE TERMS AND ASK FOR MONEY? !!! 'THE AFRICAN UNION MUST BE A WORLD WIDE BODY THAT SHOWS EFFECTIVENESS WITH IDENTIFYING PROBLEMS AND HAVING ANSWE4RS TO THIER PROBLEMS WITHOUT RUNNING TO A 'people who have failed, thier ideas are worthless they have stepped all over the inhabiattants of the planet they have abused thier position as world powers they knew not the ideologies of nobility honour righteousness nor were they just nor equal THEY MUST BE FOOLS!!!!!!!!!!! SO WHY ARENT AFRICAS SITTING IN ADDIS WITH EACH OPTHER PLANNING AND STRATEGISING THE WAY FPORWARD NOPT PLOTTING FOR WARS AND CONFLICTS. WE SEE THE WEST WITH THIER PROXIES LIKE HRW AND AND THIER NGOS. THOSE OF WHOM ARE TRULY WORKING FOR CIA AND FRENCH INETLLIGENCE AS WELL AS UK INTEL. 'WORKING FOR NATO" ". WHAT WE ARE SEEING NOW IS THE RATCHETING OF WARS IN AFRICA CREATING INSTABILITY IN THE ENTIRE CONTINENT FROM EAST WEST NORTH CENTRAL AFRICAN REGION. THEY DO NOT WANT TO SEE A STRONG AU. THEY WANT TO KEEP TROOPS IN CONGO SO THEY CAN CONTIUE TO PLUINDER PILLAGE WHILE AFRICANS BEOME REFUGESS IN THIER OWN NATIONS MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE DISPLACED . THIS SEEMS TO EB AN AFRICAN ROOTED PROBLEM BUT IT IS NOT THEY STOKE UP TROUBLE WHEN THEY SAW PEACE IN CENTRAL AFRICA THEY DECIDED THEY WANTED THE YOUNG GENERAL TO BE TRIED AT THE ICC. THIS TRHEN INFLAMED THE TRUCE WHY THE GOVERNMENT OF KABIULA WAS BEING PUT UNDER PRESSURE BECAUSE HE IS PUPPET OF THE WEST. THE ICC IS A COUNTER PRODUCTIVE INSTITUTION TO UNDERMINE THE AFRICAN UNION A SELF DETERMINATION OFR AFRICANS WITH THEMSELVES HAVING STRONG JDUICIAL JURISPRUDENCE ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT. ANY SHCOLLAR TALKING TODAY SELECTING TO SAY THAT THE ICC IS NOT BIASED AND ONLY HAS EYES FOR AFRICAN NATION IS NOT SPEAKING THE TRUTH NOR ARE THEY SPEAKING IN REALTERMS. THE WEST CONTIUES TO BE THE BIGEGST FRAUDSTERS HEGMONIST DEFAMERS INSTIGATERS COMMITTING GENOCIDE WHETHER THRU PROXIES LIKE THIER BLACKWATER CIA OPRGANISTION WHO IS BUILT WITRH DENIABILITY AND NO CONNECTIONS TO THE GOVERNMENT THAT IS FOOLISHNESS. EVERYONE ON EARTH KNOWS WHO ARE TRULY BEHIND CONMFLIUCTS BOMBINGS MURDERS GENOCIDE ETCX. THE ICC HAS NOT TAKEN FRANCE TO BOOK FO COMMITTING WAR CIED BY SUPPLYING WEAPONS TO VAST ARRAY OF PEOPLE IRRESPONSIBLY THEREBY ENSUREING MURDER MAYHEM WHICH IN THE CHAOS NUMEROUS WAR CRIMES WERE COMMITTED FROM GENOCIDE AT THE VERY TOP OF THE LIST ; GENOCIDE USUALLY MEANS THAT MASSACRES TOOK PLACE TEC. WHAT IS TRUE HERE IS THAT IF THESE WEAPONS WERE NOT MADE AVAILABLE TO THESE PEOPLE ANY OF LIVES WOULD HAVE BEEN SAVED!!!!!!!!. OS IF AFRICA DO NOT DECIDE TO TAKE THIER OWN DESTINY FORWARD AND PROTECT THE CONTIENNT FROM SUCH TREACHERY WE DO NOT HEAR ANY ATLK OF THE HUMDRED OF THOUSAND AFRICANMS THAT WERE MASSACRED BY THE CIA WITH THIER ALLIES IN BENGAZI WHEN THEY COMMITTED THESE ATTRROCCITIES IN DEFENDING THE NEED FOR NATO TO INETRVENE AND EFFECTIVELY INTIMATE REGIME CHANGE LONGSIDE THE MURDER OF THE FORMER LEADER OF LIBYA. WE SEE LAUREN GBABO ON TRIAL FOR CRIMES AGINST HUMANITY WHEN IT WAS FRANCE AND QUATARRA WHO COMMITTED THEMSELVES TO SPEAKING ABOUT WARS AND BLOOD SHED YET WE SEE GBAGBO WHO WAS DEEMED TO BE THE WINNER BY THE IVORIAN CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF THAT NATION WHO ON THE PLANET HAS THE RIGHT TO OVERTURN THIS EDICT ESPECIALLY WHEN WE SPEAK OF DEMOCRA. NOP ONE IS MORE DEMOCARTIC THAN A NEXT MANWHEN THE RUILES ARE APPLIED EQUALLY !!!!!!!!!!! WHAT WE ARE SEEING IS WESTERN REGIME CHANGE SHAMEFULLU DISGUISED WITH FARCE AND WORD PLAY TO PLACE BLAME ON A LEADER WHO DID NOT TAKE HODL WITH ARMS OR GUNS BUT TO THE CONTREARY WAS OVERTHROWN WITH GUNSAND WAR.YET TO EVEN THINK THAT THE WEST IS NOT COMMITTING CRIMES IS ALAUGHABLE!!! AFRICA NEEDS TO STAND UP SAY THAT YES!! WE ARE PROTECTING ALL THE NATIONAL BORDERS OF AFRICA AND WE WILL NOT ALLOW FOR THE PEOPLE OF ANY NATION TO BE MISRULED EXPLOITED OPPRESSED OR SUPPRESSED, HTE JUDICIAL JURISPRUDENCE OF ALL AFRICA WILL BE THE RESPONSIBILITY AND DECREE ENGRAINED IN STONE IN THE EDICTS OF THE AFRICAN UNIONS LEADER4SHIP. AFRICA HAS A CULTURE THAT EXTENDS ITSLEF MILLIONS OF YEARS ON THIS PLANET AND NO ONE KNOWS BETTER THAN THE AFRICAN ABOUT DEMOCRACY. THIS IS NOT A NERW IDEAL NOR WS IT JUST THOUGHT OF THE FRICAN WAS CREATEWD BY A SUPERIOR BEINMG THAT TAUGHT THE KNWLEDGE OF THE UNIVERSE TO THE PEOPLE HE" CRAETED SO WHEN WE SPEAK ABOUT RIGHTEOUSNEES HOLLINES TOGETHERNESS THE AFRICAN IS WELL VERSED IN ALL THESE AREAS. AFRICA NEDS TO REASSERT ITSLEF ON THE PLANET AND REINSTITUTE THE TRUTH AS TO THIER BEGININNGS '. IN ORDER FOR AFRICA TO BECOME SUCCESFUL THEY MUST STAND UNITED AND UNITE AFRICA UNDER ONE BANNER A SOVEREIGN CONTINENT SO THEREFORE ALLOWING AFRICA TO NOT WAIT FOR EUROPEANS TO COME TO OUR AID (AIDS) THERE IS THAT MALFUNCTIONING WORD AGAIN. THE PEPLE IN THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL ARE NOT BEING DEMOCRATIC ESPECIALY THE WEST THEY WANT TO RULE ANC CNTROL THE POLICIES OF THE EARTH THEY WANT TO DO THINGS THAT BENIFIT THEMSELVES. IF THE UNITED NATIONS WANTS TO CHANGE THE PEOPEL MUST EWITHER BOYCOTT THE UNITED NATIONMS AS A BODY LEAVING THEM TO LIVE BY THEMSELVES. THSI IS HOW THEY ARE DEALING WITH THE WORLD THEY WANT TO BE THE ONLY TALKERS AT THE TABLE AND WHAT IS DONE MUST BENFIT ONLY THEM. THEY CAN DECIDE WHEN THEY WANT TO GO TO WAR LIKE BUSH TAKING THE INTITITAIVE TO BOMB AND MAKE WAR OF RAQ AGAIN REGIME CHANGE , WITHOUT THE THE UNITED NATIONS MAKING A DECISION TO AS A BODY T DO THAT. WHAT WE NEED IN THE UN TODAY IS NOT A SECURITTY COUNCIL SEAT WE NEED TO MAKE DECISIOONS AS A UNITED WORLD IN ORDERE FOR DEMPCRCAY TO WORK AND EVERY NATION SHOUDL HAVE INPUT. FUNDS THAT ARE BEING GIVEN TO THER NATION SHOULD NT BE CONTROLED BY A CORRUPT BUNCH OF EUROPEANS WHO STILL FEELS THAT AFRICA IS SOMEHOW THIER PRIVATE COLONY; WE ARE STILL UNDER IMPERIAL RULES. THE UN NEEDS CHANGING IF NOT THE AFRICAN UNION MUST FILL THE GAP FOR AFRICANS. IF THEY ARE NTO READY FOR CHANGE YOU MUST BE RESOLOUTE ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT 1 BILLION PEWOPLE CANT WAIT UNTILL PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO INETERST IN THIER FUTURE OTHER THAN EXPLOITATION TO MAKE DECISIONS. THE AFRICAN UNION MUST BE VALUABLE WHAT IS THE PINT F HAVING A INSTITUTION THAT DOES NOT MAKE DECISONS FOR ITSELF. WHEN CETAIN THER LEADSR SAT IN THE CHAIR OF AFRICA THEY TOOK THE LEADERSHIP VERY SERIOUSLY AND THE WEST HAD TO STAY AT BAY AT A SERIOUS DISTANTS; LET US BE FRANK. THE MURDER OF GADDAI WAS THE CATALYSTR TO DISINTERGRATE THE AFRICAN UNION, THE MONETARY P[OLICIES THE UNION WHICH WAS AFRICA HAS LST IST EDGE. JEAN PING WAS A SELL OUT , IN THE DERAILMENT OF A PANAFRICAN LEADER NAMELY GABGBO; HE SOLD GBAGBO TO SLAVERY IN CHAINS TO THE ICCAND RESOLD IVORY COAST TO FRANCE '. WHAT WE SEE IS A DEFEATIST MEHTODOLOGY BY AFRICANS WHO RATHER THINK ABOUT THIER BRIBES THIER THREATS OF ISOLATION BY THE WEST THEY FRGET THAT 1 BILLION PEOPL INHABBIT AFRICA THEY FORGET THAT THERE IS A BIG WOLD OUT THERE. THE WEST ARE MINORITIES ON THIS PLANET . WE HAVE STRONG FREINDS IN SOUTH AMERICA THE CARRIBEAN THE AISN NATIONS YET WE STILL INSIST THAT THE WEST IS THE ONLY PEOPLE WE SHOULD DO BUSINESS WITH. THESE ARE EX COLONIAL POWERS WHO ABUSED AFRICA THERE IS NO SUCH LOYALTY THAT IS NEEDED BETWEEN THESE TWO ENTITIES. THEY WERE NEVER FREINDS TO AFRICANS WE NEED TO SIGHT THIS DACT THEY WERE ENEMIES FOES THEY STOLE MURDERED RAPED PILLAGED PLUNDERED EXTORTED EXPLOITED THEY LIED THEY CHEATED THEY SWINDLED THEY PLAGIARISED THEY DEFRAUDED , THEY DID NOT REFLECT THE HUMAN AMBIANCE OF NOBILITY THAT WAS AFRICA. THEY HAVE FORCEFULL TRIED TO REPLACE OUR CULTURES WITH NEW IMMORAL UNREDEEMING CHARACTERISTICS THAT ARTE UNIFORMLY NOT AFRICAN AND CAN NEVER BE ACCEPTED AS AFRICAN.WHETER THE SECIRITY COUNCIL MAKES ANY DECISION OR NOT THE4Y HAVE PROBVEN OVER AND OVER AGAIN EVEN IN ONE YEAR, THEY SHOWED AFRICA COMPLETE BAD FACE !!! THEY SHOWED THAT THE THEY DO NOT REALLY HAVE THE PEPLE OF THE CONTINENTS DESIRES AT HEART. IT WAS NOT IN THE INETERST OF THE PEOPLE THEY MADE THIER DECISONS THEY MADE DECISONS AS IF THEY WERE THE COLONIAL POWEWRS WHO KNOWS BEST FOR AFRICA. AFRICA IS STILL THIS IGNORANT BLACK OR DARK CONTIENNT THAT IS ILLITERATE DUNCE IGNORANT DEPENDENT ON THEM FOR BASIC NECCSSITIES?? THIS HAS BEEN THE SIGNATURE OF POOR ;EADERSHIP WHOSE ONLY DESIRE WAS TO ENRICH THEMSELVES WHILE ALLOWING FOR PILLAGING PLUNDER OF AFRICA AT THE SAME TIME GETTING MONEY WHICH WAS NEVER RELAYED TO THE PEOPLE BUT TO NSURE THEY STYED IN POWER. AGAIN THIS WASS ONLY TO EBNIFIT THE WEST AS THESE DICTAOTRS WERE NOTHING BUT FOOT SOLDIER FOR THE WEST WHO WERE THEIR PAY MASTERS. AFRICA IS TOO WEALTHY TO SATRT THINKING S FEEBLY NO BACKBONE NO STERNGTH. AFRICAN WILL NEVER GET A SEAT AT THE COUNCIL AS LONG AS AFRICA GETS AID AND DOES NOT COMPETE FOR FUNDS ECONOMIICALLY WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD . THE WEST WILL USE THE AFRICAN PEOPLE, THEY WILL BE JUST ANOTHER COLONY A BURDEN AS FAR AS THEY ARE CONCERNED! WHEN BROTEHR LEADERS SIT DOWN WITH THIER PEERS AND STOP RUNNING TO THE WHITES FOR ASSURANCES OF MONEY AND HELP; AFRICA WILL STAY STUCK!!. AFRICA NEEDS TO SIT DOWN STRATEGISE WITH EACH AND EVERY MEMBER BROTHER SISTER SATTE. AFRICA NEEDS TO BE ITS BROTEHERS KEEPER AFRICANSS NEED TO INVEST INE EACH OTHERS ECONOMIES THE BROTHER LEADER WS INSTRUMENATL IN THAT PORCCESS HE USE ISLAMIC BANKING AT THE BENIFIT OF THE PROTAGONIST WTH RESOUNDING RESULTS. IT WAS THE INTITITAIVES OF THE BROTHER LEADRVWHO SET AFRICAS RECOVERY ON THE PATH OF SUCCESS. AFRICA MUST CONTIUE TO USE HIS MO0DEL AS WELLAS SOME OF OUR ASPIRING GREAT LEADERS IN SOUTH AMERICA,PEOPLE LIKE CHAVEZ LULA AND A HOST OF OTHERS WHO ARE BRIGHT STARS. THERE ARE CUBANS IN NEED OF SHAREING THEIR INETLLIEGNCE WITH AFRICA THEY HAVE THE MOST ENGINEERS AND DOCTORS SCIENTIST OUT SIDE ALL THE WEST. IF AFRICA DOES NOT BREAK THE MASSIVE HODL THAT THE WEST CONTIUES TO USE TO INFLUINCE AND PATRONISE AFRICANS THEN WE WILL CERTAINLY STUMBLE IN THIS NEW CENTURY. THE PRSPECTY FOR AFRICA IS BRIGHT AND IT MUST BE IMPACTED WITH GERAT EMPHASIS THAT THE PEOPLE MUST COME FIRST .'FEAR NOT THOSE WHO ARE HYPOCRIST LIARS MURDERERS THEY HAVE NO PLACE IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE EARTH AWAY FROM SORROW MISERY WARS DECEIT HYPOCRISY OPPRESSION SUPPRESSION THESE THINSG ARE COMMING TO A DRAMATIC CLOSE. WE WERE ALL BORN IN THESE TIMES FOR A REASONAND WHAT WE KNOW WILL NTO GO IN VAIN. WE ARE BING EMPWEORED WITH KLNWLEDGE FOR A REASON STAND TALL LOOK AROUND LSITEN LEARN THERE IS ENEVER ENOUGH INFORMATION THAT YOU CAN ATTAIN. DO NOT BE LIK THE STUBBORN THE ARROGANT THE CNCVEITED THE STIFF NECK BE HUMBLE BE CLEARAS FOR YOUR OBJECTIVES BUT NEVER BE BIAS PREJUIDICE UNJUST HYPOCRITICAL AND THERE IS NEVER A NEED TO LIE ENEVER EVER!!!!! ALIAR CAN NEVR BE TRUSTED AT ANY TIME HE WILL ALWAYS FAIL YOU!! AND THIS IS A FACT.