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RedFury

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6. Yes but...

Reply to oberliner (Reply #5)

Tue Nov 27, 2012, 02:30 PM

Nov 2012

Only because their request is for "non-member observer state" If it was for full statehood it would have to go to the UNSC where...well, we all know what would happen there. In fact, it already happened last year.

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