'G-4,' African Union reach basic accord on UNSC expansion plan

[Eugene]

'G-4,' African Union reach basic accord on UNSC expansion plan

Compiled from AP, Kyodo
LONDON -- The "Group of Four" reached a basic agreement Monday with
the African Union during a meeting to iron out differences over U.N.
Security Council expansion in a bid to come up with a single
resolution, Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said.

Machimura said the G-4 nations -- Japan, Brazil, Germany and India --
would go along with the African Union proposal to expand the number
of new nonpermanent members by five instead of the four sought by the
G-4.

It was not clear if all members of the 53-state African group would
agree to team up with the G-4 to produce a single resolution on
enlarging the Security Council, Machimura said.

More: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050727f2.htm

Meanwhile, Italy is crying foul: http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-07-26T234843Z_01_DIT685711_RTRUKOC_0_UN-COUNCIL-REFORM.xml

[wli]

1. obviously blackmail is the modus operandi

IMF loan sharking is well-documented.