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HEAD OF THE TABLE

I think it is very neat that they took advantage of what is basically a circumstance. It was the US turn to head the UN Security Council. They put Obama to be the actual president of the council for two days.

I have made up in my own mind that they decided to do this and then the other world leaders decided to make it a full deck. They were coming to the G-20 anyway.

This is the kind of production that takes great diplomatic skills and universal respect to happen.

Obama has both.

Played right, the USA might just be gaining some of the loss of the past administrations neglect of world affairs.

New UN resolution aims at nuclear-free world

It was only the fifth time the Security Council met at summit level since the U.N. was founded in 1945 and 14 of the 15 chairs around the council's horseshoe-shaped table were filled by presidents and prime ministers. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's name was on the U.N.-circulated list as attending but he was a no-show. Libya's U.N. ambassador spoke for his country.

The U.S. holds the rotating council presidency this month and Obama was the first American president to preside over a Security Council summit, gaveling the meeting into session and announcing that "the draft resolution has been adopted unanimously."

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