U.S. to be U.N. Security Council Prez in April

[Pauls' Revere]

Just had a thought. The U.S. is scheduled to be the president of the U.N. Security Council this April per the rotation schedule set in place. How much pressure can we expect to be put on Iran once this happens? How does this change things if at all? Anybody have any ideas or info about how our policy is driven by this?

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

Section 30 of the United Nations Charter states that the Security Council is empowered to establish rules of procedure, "including the method of selecting its President."[1] The Security Council has established the following method of selecting the president: the presidency rotates monthly among the state members of the Security Council. The rotation takes place in alphabetical order of the member states' official United Nations names in English.

January 2012

South Africa

Baso Sangqu[110]

February 2012

Togo (scheduled)[111]


March 2012

United Kingdom (scheduled)[111]


April 2012

United States (scheduled)[111]

May 2012

Azerbaijan (scheduled)[111]


June 2012

People's Republic of China (scheduled)[111]

 

[Lishy]

Oh no..

 

[Mini-Me]

This is a pretty regular occurrence, and the US gets a month in this position a little more often than every year and a half. The last time was December 2010, for instance. The Iraq War did not start during one of these periods either, so I don't think it's going to be a month of inordinate risk. We're living in interesting times overall though, so you never know.

 

[Pauls' Revere]

UPDATE:

http://news.yahoo.com/panetta-says-israel-could-strike-iran-spring-report-232458035.html

The Post columnist said Panetta "believes there is a strong likelihood that Israel will strike Iran in April, May or June before Iran enters what Israelis described as a 'zone of immunity' to commence building a nuclear bomb."

I hope im wrong.