April fools, not.

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On April 1st each year the alphabetical listing of the members of the United Nations is used to select the country that will have the seat of the presidency of the UN Security Council. And according to that alphabetical listing as of today April 1st 2023 Russia becomes the country that sits as the president of the UN security Council.

In the past there has been one precedence of a country being prevented from holding that seat. That was when Africa was prevented from holding that seat because of apartheid going on. So it will be interesting to see if the remaining members of the UN managed to prevent Russia from holding this seat.

I wish this was only a joke, but this is what is going on!!!
 
In the past there has been one precedence of a country being prevented from holding that seat. That was when Africa was prevented from holding that seat because of apartheid going on. So it will be interesting to see if the remaining members of the UN managed to prevent Russia from holding this seat.
Isn't Africa a continent?
I think you were referring to South Africa, as they had apartheid issues until 1994.

Regardless, that's pretty wild!
 
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