CARACAS, Wednesday September 20, 2006 | Update
Any support to Venezuela or Guatemala to join the United
Nations (UN) Security Council will be decided few days before
voting, Chilean Foreign Minister Alejandro Foxley said Wednesday.
"It is not a topic to be discussed at this current moment.
There is still time enough. Therefore, we will make our decision
well at the end," the minister told Santiago's Radio Cooperative
in New York, as quoted by AFP.
Election of the new temporary members at the UN Security
Council will take place next October 16th.
In New York, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet planned
to meet with her counterparts Hugo Chávez of Venezuela
and Oscar Berger of Guatemala, within the framework of the
UN General Assembly.
04:17 PM. Western Hemisphere. "Damned empire; I curse you one thousand times; some day you will be finished off and wrecked. I curse you one thousand times, empire." This is the least that President Hugo Chávez has uttered to refer to the US government. In urging the Bolivarian Armed Forces to prepare for war, he said that a US raid on Venezuela through Colombia would trigger and spread over the region "the 100-year war."