- If the Europeans all vote alike, do they need so many seats on the IMF Board?
- The Western European & Others Group have their monthly meeting today. WEOG is the only regional group that will have a contested slate in October’s Security Council elections.
- Valerie Amos pushes her start date back to September 6th.
- An independent review panel wants senior officials on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change-including the current chair-to step down. Members states that oversee the IPCC are meeting in October.
- Tsuneo Nishida of Japan is going to be busy through the end of the year, chairing 3 UNSC subsidiary bodies – Resolution 1737, Peacekeeping Ops, and Documentation
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