Obama to Chair UN Security Council?

[ShaneEnochs]

Has anyone heard anything about this? I did a search but I couldn't find any threads on it.

 

[Zippyjuan]

The head of the UN Security Council rotates monthly among its members. Usually that would be taken by the Ambassador of the country to the United Nations- not the head of the country like President Obama.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council

The Presidency rotates monthly in alphabetical order of the Security Council member nations' names in English.

The UN Security Council has five perminant members- China, France, Great Britain, Russia, and the United States. In addition to that, there are ten non- perminant members. They presently are Argentina for Latin America and the Carribean, Australia for "Western Europe and Other", Ruwanda for Africa, Luxumburg for "Western Europe and Other", and South Korea for Asia. There is a third group of five (the two non- member groups serve two years and half of them are replaced one year and half the next). This third group is currently Azerbaijan for Eastern Europe, Guatamala for Latin America and the Carribean, Morocco for Africa and Arabia, Pakistan for Asia and Togo for Africa.

Thus the US will be the head of the UN Security Council for one month every 15 months. And again, it is usually the UN Ambassador, not the President who takes over that job.

The next time the US is scheduled to have the position is July of 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_Nations_Security_Council

 

[ShaneEnochs]

The head of the UN Security Council rotates monthly among its members. Usually that would be taken by the Ambassador of the country to the United Nations- not the head of the country like President Obama.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council


The UN Security Council has five perminant members- China, France, Great Britain, Russia, and the United States. In addition to that, there are ten non- perminant members. They presently are Argentina for Latin America and the Carribean, Australia for "Western Europe and Other", Ruwanda for Africa, Luxumburg for "Western Europe and Other", and South Korea for Asia. There is a third group of five (the two non- member groups serve two years and half of them are replaced one year and half the next). This third group is currently Azerbaijan for Eastern Europe, Guatamala for Latin America and the Carribean, Morocco for Africa and Arabia, Pakistan for Asia and Togo for Africa.

Thus the US will be the head of the UN Security Council for one month every 15 months. And again, it is usually the UN Ambassador, not the President who takes over that job.

I thought the President wasn't allowed to take foreign titles?

 

[Zippyjuan]

He isn't taking any foreign title.

 

[ShaneEnochs]

He isn't taking any foreign title.

Chairman isn't a title?

 

[Demigod]

So we have Australia,Luxumburg and Azerbaijan for Western Europe and Eastern Europe. and Togo+Rwanda for Africa

 

[Zippyjuan]

Chairman isn't a title?

The US President isn't serving as chairman of the UN Security Council- the US Ambassador to the UN is. Is "Chairman" a foreign title anyways?


The country representing one of the regions in the ten "non- permanent" members gets changed every two years. Five this year, five next year.

 

[ShaneEnochs]

The US President isn't serving as chairman of the UN Security Council- the US Ambassador to the UN is. Is "Chairman" a foreign title anyways?


The country representing one of the regions in the ten "non- permanent" members gets changed every two years. Five this year, five next year.

That's what I was looking for. Someone on my FB was going nuts because he said that for the first time the President was going to chair it. I couldn't find any relevant information. Guess it's not true.

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

So who is the US Ambassador to the UN and when is it the US's turn again?

-t

 

[Zippyjuan]

The next time the US is scheduled to take the position is July 2013. The current US Ambassador to the UN is Susan Rice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_the_United_Nations

Pakistan has it for this month- January. The US has had it three times so far since Obama became president- September 2009, December 2010, and April 2012.

And yes, at those times, there were also people in a panic that Obama would be head of the UN Security Council.

 

[Romulus]

He isn't taking any foreign title.

Oh you and your bullshit...

He is the first president to chair the UN.

 

[Zippyjuan]

When did he do that? Link?

OK- I stand corrected- he did it for one meeting on one day- September 24, 2009. I admit- I was wrong on that- I forgot. Thank you for correcting me.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/world/25prexy.html?_r=0

The Security Council meeting was the last major business at the United Nations before Mr. Obama arrived here for an economic summit meeting of the Group of 20. It capped three days of intensive diplomacy leading up to the first direct negotiations with Iran in decades that will involve a representative of the United States, scheduled for next Thursday.

But Mr. Obama used the meeting to broaden the issue, hoping to stop an incipient arms race in the region and rewrite outdated treaties, starting with a review of the 1972 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty next year.

 

[Lucille]

That's what I was looking for. Someone on my FB was going nuts because he said that for the first time the President was going to chair it. I couldn't find any relevant information. Guess it's not true.

He did serve as Chair of the UN Security Council in '09:



Unprecedented.

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

The next time the US is scheduled to take the position is July 2013. The current US Ambassador to the UN is Susan Rice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_the_United_Nations

Pakistan has it for this month- January. The US has had it three times so far since Obama became president- September 2009, December 2010, and April 2012.

And yes, at those times, there were also people in a panic that Obama would be head of the UN Security Council.

Anyone know what's on the agenda for July?

International Gun Ban?
Climate Change?
Agenda 21?
Other?

-t

 

[Romulus]

When did he do that? Link?

OK- I stand corrected- he did it for one meeting on one day- September 24, 2009. I admit- I was wrong on that- I forgot. Thank you for correcting me.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/world/25prexy.html?_r=0

Now you should go back and edit the posts where you are wrong so you stop giving anyone else further misinformation.

 

[Lucille]

Now you should go back and edit the posts where you are wrong so you stop giving anyone else further misinformation.

Why would he want to do that? It's his job!

It's happening, people, the question is whether you'll be standing there arguing with a fake sockpuppet of the establishment or shoving your foot up his or her fictitious ass when it happens to you.

But enough about f'n Zippy.

Obama does what he wants. He has already violate the Constitution more times than I care to count. If anyone objects, then it falls on deaf ears since they're scared they'll be called racist. (See Republicans in CONgress doing nothing about his on-going criminal acts, and funding every frickin' thing he's signed into law.)

 

[Zippyjuan]

Now you should go back and edit the posts where you are wrong so you stop giving anyone else further misinformation.

Which ones did you have in mind?
Post #2?

The head of the UN Security Council rotates monthly among its members. Usually that would be taken by the Ambassador of the country to the United Nations- not the head of the country like President Obama.

Post #4?

He isn't taking any foreign title.

Post #7?

The US President isn't serving as chairman of the UN Security Council- the US Ambassador to the UN is. Is "Chairman" a foreign title anyways?

He isn't serving as Chairman of the UN Security Council. Is he? Is he scheduled to personally take the chair himeself in July? Not as of yet.

He did it one time for one day.