September 29, 2009

Hola? Hola? Hey, greeting to the United Nations

This year's UN General Debate finally ended. This year's conference attracted the most important leaders in the world. Obama did a good job as he spoke in this chamber for the first time. Gordon Brown tried to make himself closer to President Obama. Sarkozy demanded a permanent Security Council seat for African Union. Hu promised to cut CO2. Medvedev suggested Russia could support a fresh sanction against Iran. The only one missing is Chancellor Merkel, who is busy with the election celebration.

Many controversies made this year's conference interesting. Murmarr Qaddafi and Hugo Chavez's long speeches were real fun. Ahmadinejad continued his reputation built last year. Robert Mugabe even made an appeal to lift sanction against his extremely corrupt government. But most important, this year is not a good one for coup leaders.

Madagascar's coup leader arrived in the chamber, but was blocked to speak by African countries in a rare confusion of rule and chaos when the President of General Assembly wasn't sure what to do. The Southern African country bloc succeeded by getting 23 positive votes out of 192 members because the majority of them didn't understand what they are going to vote on and they are yet to receive instruction from the government. This shows African countries' determination to tackle the longstanding history of military coup, but how this could help Madagascar back to normal is anybody's guess.

On Monday, Honduran Foreign Minister used cell phone to let deposed President Zaleya make a speech in front of the world from Brazillian embassy in Tegucigalpa, where he sneaked in unnoticed. He definitely is not a popular leader in the world, but he received the support because nobody could accept the way he was forced out of office -- fleeding in pyjamas. What he is doing now actually is worsening the situation, but the international community is in a dilemma of whether to support him. The puzzle of Honduras seems to have just started.

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