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The stalemate for the Latin America nonpermanent seat on the UN Security Council has ended; the winner by consensus was a genuinely surprised Panama. The selection ended a proxy battle between US-backed Guatemala and the vehemently anti-US-President-George-W.-Bush Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Neither country was able to get the 128 votes necessary for a two-thirds majority in the General Assembly that would have earned it a two-year stint on the world's most powerful deliberative body.
After 47 consecutive ballots proved inconclusive, Ecuador's UN Ambassador Diego Cordovez hosted meetings between Guatemalan and Venezuelan officials in the hope of getting one or the other to back out of the contest or, failing that, getting both to withdraw to clear the way for a new third candidate.
It was the second of these choices that finally bore fruit, permitting Cordovez to announce, "The two candidates reached an agreement to step down, and they came up with Panama as a consensus candidate." With mutual backing from the adversaries, Panama's election in the General Assembly was assured.
"We are recognizing today this role of Panama as a political and geographical meeting point,...
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