After a long and expensive campaign, Iceland has finally learned that it will not be a member of the United Nations Security Council in 2009-10. Austria and Turkey will take Europe’s two rotating seats this time. “This of course is disappointing, you never go into a battle like this without the aim of winning,” said the Icelandic Foreign Minister Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladottir in an interview with MBL.is last night.
“This was a difficult battle to fight, all of the candidates had a strong case and all have a very developed foreign services and strong advocates. The election also comes at a point where our country is dealing with economical troubles,“ said Gisladottir and added that “…even though we kept our head high, I believe it did play a role.
Both Turkey and Austria are not dealing with anything like this and finally I believe that the actions of the United Kingdom put Iceland in a very negative light“.
“The whole process has taught Iceland much about international politics, we now have many new friendly nations and I also know that through our work we have left behind a strong deposit that Iceland can use at a later stage,“ the Foreign Minister added finally.
armis the very first sentence says
“Iceland has finally learned that it will not be a member of the United Nations Security Council in 2009-10”
so I dont understand your point
I also think that the world would have been a better place if the council had a meeting or two in “The Blue Lagoon”.
Hhhmmm, Icelanders are well over 300.000, I belive that it would have been good for the UN to get a voice in there from a country that does not have an army and a police force that has no arms (exept for the viking SWAT – 12 guy’s).
haha, you’d think they would get their own house in order first before trying to solve everyone else’s problems. anyway with only 150,000 people iceland is more like a big village than a country so it hardly seemed right to give them that much power in the first place.
And as soon as it became clear that Austria and Turkey will be the new members of the UN Security Council, Russia’s interest in lending money to Iceland vanished. Honi soit qui mal y pense.
UN Security Council it is and looks like they have taken your point and fixed it, UN Security Council it is.
I suspect this is about the seat on the UN Security Council, but wouldn’t it make it easier for the reader to make it plain in the article?