Veni and all my friends, Your right that there has been a lack of balance sense the beginning, and that lack is essentially where Danny placed it and for the very reasons he outlined in brief. As for UN funding, and Americas share, in my strong opinion only, we as Americans pay taxes of which a portion of that Taxes funds the UN and all of it's internal organizations and we pay far too much and gain far too little in return. Yet this administration has made significant mistakes regarding our international relations which need correcting. And the over funding by the US of the UN is one of them. It's been long past time that America is looked upon to solve all the worlds problems with mostly our tax payers $$ to the UN. Let the UN seek it's funding in the open market place and see how well it does... Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 277k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== Updated 1/26/04 CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com My Phone: 214-244-4827 Veni Markovski wrote:
At 08:58 17.02.2008 -0800, Danny Younger wrote:
If that means that North America will be assigned 66 percent of reps on the ALAC at this point in time -- so be it. At some point soon the balance will switch to Asia, and when that happens I would expect the weighting to be changed to relect the new mix.
The politically correct distribution that we suffer under has not worked out. A change is most certainly in order.
Quite the contrary - have you thought that some of the problems existing today may be due to the fact that there has been lack of balance in the beginning. As for your suggestion about today and "some point", this only shows how big the gap between you and the rest of the world is. You see, the world is not the USA only, and the fact that there are so many commercial registrants in this country only makes them involved into a business, which seems to be losing the momentum anyway. To make an analogy - since the US is contributing bigger share of the UN budget, does that mean it should tell the UN what to do, and the Security Council - how to vote? And if tomorrow another country starts paying more, will you be happy to see how it dictates you how to live.
veni
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