If you are going to have a Security Council with more members, are you going to reserve 10 seats automatically on all these bodies That would mean all these bodies would have to be pretty big to accomplish that.
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One gets the impression that other countries are suspicious that the secretary general and his aides are really puppets being manipulated by Washington.Edward Luck
Even a debate in the council, perhaps at the foreign minister's level, raises the ante and political tensions in capitals around the world that Iran is not meeting its obligations and appears to be developing an independent nuclear capability. It's not good news for Iran.
Edward Luck
The idea of having a real transition period makes eminent sense, and most member states would tend to agree in theory. The problem is, can they settle on a candidate by the middle of the year It would be a major triumph, but I'm not betting the farm on it.
Edward Luck
Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.
Edward Luck
These people should have been put under a watch list to let them creep back into procurement is the height of irresponsibility. Reform, in the end, is really a question of people and you can put in all the rules and regulations you want, but clever determined people who know the system well will find a way of getting around the rules.
Edward Luck
It doesn't seem that the best time to start reform is when there's a major political crisis, ... In fact, it seems to me he was putting the cart before the horse, because you can't get major institutional reform unless you have a rather good political climate, and a fair degree of trust and common views among the membership. When they have very different views, when they are deeply divided, they can't agree on fundamental structural reforms. Never have they been able to agree on those things when they were deeply divided.
Edward Luck
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