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42In First Day of Voting, Venezuela Fails To Win Security Council SeatBENNY AVNI -The New York SunUNITED NATIONS - In a setback for its increasingly popular president,Venezuela was unable to marshal enough support yesterday to win a seat onthe U.N. Security Council.A routine U.N. General Assembly vote on the five of the 10 elected seats onthe Security Council turned dramatic as neither Venezuela nor its rival forthe Latin American council seat, Guatemala, won the necessary support oftwo-thirds of the 192 assembly members.Yesterday's secret General Assembly process resembled a day at the races,with one-minute rounds of voting. Separating them were 20-minuteintervals, as paper ballots were counted and delegates exchanged opinions,sipped espresso in the nearby lounge, and lobbied each other.During the early morning rounds, Venezuelans handed out small packets ofVenezuelan-made chocolate while Guatemalans gave away colorfulwristbands made of beads. Some Muslim delegates said they put off eatingthe chocolate until sundown as part of the daily Ramadan fast.Behind the scenes, however, was intense lobbying, with Venezuelapromising oil deals, America - which supported Guatemala's candidacy -pledging political incentives, and both sides threatening retaliation for thosewho voted against them. The result was, in the words of one Venezuelandiplomat, a "roller-coaster ride."The race was closely watched in Caracas, where a national presidentialelection is scheduled for early next year. President Chavez has invested hisprestige and petrodollars in the Security Council race, and some of hisfiercest anti-American rhetoric has been reserved for it.Yet Mr. Chavez's famous September speech at the U.N. General Assembly,in which he called President Bush "el Diablo," could have hurt his country'scandidacy.
43"You have to work within certain parameters," the Panamanian ambassadorto the United Nations, Ricardo Arias, said.The speech led many diplomats tobelieve that if Venezuela gained a Security Council seat, Mr. Chavez wouldgo too far to split the council and render it ineffective, Mr. Arias added."We are fighting against the biggest power on the planet," the Venezuelanambassador to the United Nations, Francisco Javier Arias Cardenas, said."The U.S. is fighting us as if we were holding a nuclear bomb to destroy it."Guatemala began the day with 109 supporters, 15 votes shy of the twothirdsmajority needed to win the seat. Venezuela, which until yesterday wasacting as if its election were assured, received only 76 votes in the firstround.In later rounds, the rivals moved to a 93–93 tie. After 10 rounds, however,Guatemala was back in the lead, with 110 supporters to Venezuela's 77.Mr. Cardenas vowed to preserve his country's "dignity" and said Venezuelawould hang onto its core group of supporters "until the last moment." Butthe Guatemalan foreign minister, Gert Rosenthal, said,"If this goes on fordays and neither party gets the two-thirds, both should withdraw for a thirdcandidate."In October 1979, the General Assembly went through a record 154 rounds ofvoting as Cuba and Colombia vied for a council seat. Both finally withdrewin January 1980 after Mexico stepped in as a compromise candidate.At one point yesterday, as the assembly seemed deadlocked, one countryvoted Mexico in, only to be countered in the next round by a vote for Cuba.Most diplomats said publicly that for now, the contest is between Venezuelaand Guatemala, but that at least three countries - Costa Rica, the DominicanRepublic, and Uruguay - could enter the race.Earlier yesterday, South Africa, Italy, Belgium, and Indonesia easily wonenough votes for council seats. But after 10 rounds of voting for the LatinAmerican seat, the president of the General Assembly, Sheikha HayaRashed Al Khalifa, called a halt to the voting until today.
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