<font color=orange>Just found this on CNN. Iraq and Iran will chair the UN conference on Disarmament, because of alpabetical order. Here is the link.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/...nce/index.html

Isn't that like putting the fox in charge of the hen house? I'm sure Mr. Blix will be impressed! Especially after his less than glowing speech to the UN Security Council on Iraq WmD status.</font>

Ok... and the UN will allow that?

I doubt they're gonna change their statutes just because it sounds "ironic". And refusing Iraq into the conference despite official regulations would only alienate them further, which isn't that smart from a "let's try to prevent a war first" perspective the UN is trying to uphold at the moment. I don't really see the problem.

The soap opera continues. :D

Iraq, a nation which has agreed to disarm under order of the UN, but has refused to do so for the last dozen years gets to head the UN committee on Disarmament for 4 weeks? [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img]

According to Chief UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix, Iraq has not come to terms with the order to disarm and is not co-operating substanitively.....

And Libya is I charge of the Committee on Human Rights :rolleyes: - because it was Africa's turn to chair Committee and the other African contries pointed to Libya.

Now put N-Korea in charge of some committee and you'll have the three stooges. :D

<font color=orange>I know North Korea could be in charge of the IAEA! Wouldn't that be just grand! NOT!</font>