We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the… — John Negroponte

We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration.

John NegroponteDiplomat · American · b. 1939

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