DR goes after UN seat

[NewsWhore]

The Dominican Republic is launching its final push for a seat on the UN Security Council as a non-permanent member. The fight for votes is against Costa Rica, which seems to have the backing of China, a permanent member of the Security Council. Dominican foreign minister Carlos Morales Troncoso is currently hard at work campaigning for votes for the DR, which despite being one of the original signatories of the UN Charter, has never actually sat on the Security Council. Costa Rica has occupied the seat on two previous occasions.

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