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Ludicrous! Why the world keeps going back to Saudi Arabia for hosting secular events and donning UN leadership positions on it is a mystery. 2018 was supposed t

• dogma1138 9y ago
  That is intentional most of the UN bodies are structured around the geographical groups for which each group would elect a member. Due to how the groups are structured you have effectively only a single group which is for the most part nearly purely democratic and western that is the Western group which includes NA Most of the EU/EEA, Australia and Turkey. The Eastern region is basically Russia its newly formed vassal states and a few EU countries that got shafted they like Japan also want to move into the Western group. Then you have Africa which gets its own region. APAC which is the dominated by the Arab Peninsula, China and India and Pakistan and the Latin American region which shifts constantly from being ok to being quite loony. The 5 region basically elect representatives to the various UN bodies like the human rights council since the elections are internal it’s basically regional politics and rotation of the crazy for 3 out of the 5 regions. This is how you get Syria on the Human Rights Council, China as the monitor of press freedom and Saudi Arabia as the champion of Women’s right in the UN. Israel was not a member of any group as the Arab states blocked its membership to the APAC and the African blocks, in 2013 if finally got to be a member of the western block which meant that it was the first time in 65 years it could send a representative to be elected to a UN position.