Guatemalan president Oscar Berger said on Monday his Central American nation is closer to getting the votes needed to beat U.S. antagonist Venezuela for a seat on the United Nations Security Council. “We have 98 countries backing us, I’m not going to mention names,” Berger told reporters. Guatemala needs a two-thirds majority vote among 192 members of the U.N. General Assembly to replace Argentina as a non-permanent representative on the 15-nation Security Council. The voting is by secret ballot, so any public commitment may come undone. Full Story
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