BEWARE: The Netherlands formally elected in UN Security Council

[T-Rex]

Last update: 02 June 2017 17:25

The Netherlands was chosen as a member of the UN Security Council in 2018. The election was a formality because the Netherlands and Italy had already agreed to divide the seat for the period 2017-2018.

Both countries fought last year for one vacant temporary seat of two years, but both received insufficient support. Then it was agreed that Italy occupied the seat this year and the Netherlands next year. It's a rarity that two countries share a temporary seat.

The Security Council focuses on the preservation of peace and security and imposes sanctions, deploying peacekeeping forces and influencing policies. The US, Russia, China, France and Great Britain are permanent members, the other ten members rotate. In March of 2018, the Netherlands is one month chairman of the Security Council.

It is the sixth time since 1946 that the Netherlands is joining the Netherlands as a non-permanent member. "Membership is an excellent opportunity for the highest level of influence and subjects that are important for us to get on the agenda," says Minister of Foreign Affairs.

http://www.nu.nl/buitenland/4741383/nederland-formeel-gekozen-in-veiligheidsraad-vn.html

So, requests anyone?

The most insignificant incident of the year.

 

[Penguin]

UNSC is a joke. UNSC is a failure.

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UNSC has lost its worth.just a tool for USA and nato to legalize their punk activities.

Is there a reason why Pakistan hasn't withdrawn from the UN after all those years? I mean, if it has lost its worth and is a joke/failure?

The most insignificant incident of the year.

Thank you for your positive contribution and considered opion. But don't dispair: the year isn't out yet and Bangladesh can still do something to take a shot at obtaining this honor...

Bangladesh — non-permanent member of the Security Council during the following years:

• 1979 – 1980

• 2000 – 2001

http://www.un.org/en/sc/inc/searchres_sc_members_english.asp?sc_members=13

2000: Bangladesh at the UN Security Council. A Diplomatic Challenge for the New Millennium
http://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh-at-the-un-security-council

2014: Bangladesh has withdrawn its candidature for the non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council in support of its 'long-tested' friend Japan
http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2014/09/06/bangladesh-sacrifices-unsc-candidacy-supporting-japan

I think he meant "Attention"

Nah, I meant BEWARE. As it means bringing in the wildly succesful (<slight sarcasm) 'polder-model' (< that might be something worth looking up and familiarizing with).

I started this thread on a light note and a slightly self-depreciating tone. I would like to keep it that way. So, folks without a sense of humor and/or lacking the ability to consider their country is any less serious way than totally nationalistic (i.e. who can't laugh about their own country) are kindly requested to not post here and simply move on.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

(in Iceland's defence: they do make a yogurt-like low-fat dairy product unique to Iceland with rich flavor and a creamy thick texture as well as an excellent source of calcium and protein, called Skyr. You might want to take that into account. It will drive my price up though)

Hmm...that may sway me. I think I'm the only one on the planet who thinks Greek Yogurt sucks. Unfortunately for me it is pushing my beloved traditional yogurt off the shelves.

mmm...lots of dyes and chemicals too...but eh...it's yummy!

Probably all natural or something but it tastes like crap.

I grant them a reprieve so they can market this "Skyr" stuff worldwide and defeat this dreadful plague on mankind.

Please cross Iceland off the list....and replace with...Greece.

 

[denel]

goooo kaasmakers...

 

[TMA]

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Is there a reason why Pakistan hasn't withdrawn from the UN after all those years? I mean, if it has lost its worth and is a joke/failure?


Thank you for your positive contribution and considered opion. But don't dispair: the year isn't out yet and Bangladesh can still do something to take a shot at obtaining this honor...

Bangladesh — non-permanent member of the Security Council during the following years:

• 1979 – 1980

• 2000 – 2001

http://www.un.org/en/sc/inc/searchres_sc_members_english.asp?sc_members=13

2000: Bangladesh at the UN Security Council. A Diplomatic Challenge for the New Millennium
http://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh-at-the-un-security-council

2014: Bangladesh has withdrawn its candidature for the non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council in support of its 'long-tested' friend Japan
http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2014/09/06/bangladesh-sacrifices-unsc-candidacy-supporting-japan
Nah, I meant BEWARE. As it means bringing in the wildly succesful (<slight sarcasm) 'polder-model' (< that might be something worth looking up and familiarizing with).

I started this thread on a light note and a slightly self-depreciating tone. I would like to keep it that way. So, folks without a sense of humor and/or lacking the ability to consider their country is any less serious way than totally nationalistic (i.e. who can't laugh about their own country) are kindly reuqested not post here and simply move on.

Oh how I wish Pakistan did what President Sukarno valiantly tried to do...

Oh how I wish Pakistan did what President Sukarno valiantly tried to do...

 

[Zibago]

The veto makes UN very weak when on Syria and Israel certain countries keep blocking peace initiatives but UN should exist it at-least keeps door of dialogue open

 

[Fledgingwings]

Is there a reason why Pakistan hasn't withdrawn from the UN after all those years? I mean, if it has lost its worth and is a joke/failure?

There are many other countries no longer consider UNSC as a credible organisation having any significance.One of the reasons they are cursed and criticised by the west.Pakistan has been asking the UNSC for a demilitarisation of jammu and kashmir and guess what nothing more than typical blah blah.so Pakistanis dont care about it anymore! infact the world existed before its existence and shall exist after it as well.Think !

 

[Penguin]

Hmm...that may sway me. I think I'm the only one on the planet who thinks Greek Yogurt sucks. Unfortunately for me it is pushing my beloved traditional yogurt off the shelves.

mmm...lots of dyes and chemicals too...but eh...it's yummy!

Probably all natural or something but it tastes like crap.

I grant them a reprieve so they can market this "Skyr" stuff worldwide and defeat this dreadful plague on mankind.

Please cross Iceland off the list....and replace with...Greece.

Scratch Iceland, pencil in ... Greece. Done!

Skyr is a high protein, low-fat product (of skimmed milk), varying slightly between brands. Unflavored skyr is roughly 12% protein, 3% carbohydrate, 0.5% fat, and high in calcium and vitamins commonly found in milk products
http://www.skyriceland.com/skyr.is-products

Strained yogurt, Greek yogurt, yogurt cheese, or labneh , is yogurt that has been strained to remove its whey, resulting in a thicker consistency than unstrained yogurt, while preserving yogurt's distinctive, sour taste. Like many types of yogurt, strained yogurt is often made from milk that has been enriched by boiling off some of its water content, or by adding extra butterfat and powdered milk. In Europe and North America, it is often made with low-fat or fat-free yogurt. In Scandinavia, particularly Iceland, a similar product, skyr is produced.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strained_yogurt

In the Netherlands, strained yogurt is known as hangop, literally meaning 'hang up'. It is a traditional dessert. Hangop may also be made using buttermilk.

Make your own Hangop (very easy!)

Making 'hangop' isn't really hard; within 5 minutes the preparations are done and you have only to wait until the it is ss ready. You can make hangop extra tasty by adding fresh fruit or whipped cream. Or what about hangop with a 'stroopwafel' ?

Delicious, old-fashioned hangop is an old typical Dutch dessert. Back in the day when there was no supermarket that had little buckets of hangop in the fridge/dairy department. In those days, they made hanop in a cloth, just as this recipe will show you. If you make hangop yourself, you can add all sorts of tasty flavors yourself. The hangop available in the shops is always always with apple, but clearly there are so many more tasty flavors!

So, what do you need for home-made hangop?

Essentials

• 1 liter of yoghurt
• Sieve
• Pan
• Clean tea towel

In addition

• Some powdered sugar or sweetener
• Perhaps fresh vanilla stick
• Fresh fruit or other tasty topping

How do you make hangop?

• Put a griddle or a sieve into a pan.
• The sieve should not touch the bottom of the pan
• Rinse a clean teatowel under the tap, twist out and then put the dampwet teatowel in the sieve
• The tips of the tea towel you can tie together, which eliminate a messes in the refrigerator later
• Now pour the yoghurt into the towel
• Cover it with a piece of plastic kitchen foil
• Put the yogurt sieve in the fridge for 8 hours
• The water will run out of the yogurt and end up in the pan under the sieve
• What remains in the tea towel is your basic homemade hangop
• Take the hangop with a spoon or spatula and put it it in a bowl

You now have home-made hangop. This you bring to taste with, for example, some powdered sugar or sweetener, you can also stir in some fresh vanilla. Ordinary, sugar is less suitable for stirring through the hangop. Ordinary crystalline sugar is a bit too grainy, so icing sugar is preferred.

You can make the hangop extra tasty by adding fresh fruit. You can also knock up some whipped cream and spatula that through the hangop. That's really delicious. Go wild with the toppings, or you can get or make cookies to go with the hangop. Hangop with Oreo springs to mind.

What kind of yoghurt do you use to make a hangover?
Hangop usually is made with full fat yogurt, but with lean yogurt you can also make a nice hangop. It's still bad calories. Farmers yogurt is usually a fuller kind of yogurt and it is often slightly milder, which also works fine.

There are many other countries no longer consider UNSC as a credible organisation having any significance.One of the reasons they are cursed and criticised by the west.Pakistan has been asking the UNSC for a demilitarisation of jammu and kashmir and guess what nothing more than typical blah blah.so Pakistanis dont care about it anymore! infact the world existed before its existence and shall exist after it as well.Think !

Then why aren't these countries leaving the UN? It is not like membership is FREE!
http://www.un.org/en/ga/contributions/

 

[Fledgingwings]

Scratch Iceland, pencil in ... Greece. Done!

Skyr is a high protein, low-fat product (of skimmed milk), varying slightly between brands. Unflavored skyr is roughly 12% protein, 3% carbohydrate, 0.5% fat, and high in calcium and vitamins commonly found in milk products
http://www.skyriceland.com/skyr.is-products

Strained yogurt, Greek yogurt, yogurt cheese, or labneh , is yogurt that has been strained to remove its whey, resulting in a thicker consistency than unstrained yogurt, while preserving yogurt's distinctive, sour taste. Like many types of yogurt, strained yogurt is often made from milk that has been enriched by boiling off some of its water content, or by adding extra butterfat and powdered milk. In Europe and North America, it is often made with low-fat or fat-free yogurt. In Scandinavia, particularly Iceland, a similar product, skyr is produced.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strained_yogurt

In the Netherlands, strained yogurt is known as hangop, literally meaning 'hang up'. It is a traditional dessert. Hangop may also be made using buttermilk.

Make your own Hangop (very easy!)

Making 'hangop' isn't really hard; within 5 minutes the preparations are done and you have only to wait until the it is ss ready. You can make hangop extra tasty by adding fresh fruit or whipped cream. Or what about hangop with a 'stroopwafel' ?

Delicious, old-fashioned hangop is an old typical Dutch dessert. Back in the day when there was no supermarket that had little buckets of hangop in the fridge/dairy department. In those days, they made hanop in a cloth, just as this recipe will show you. If you make hangop yourself, you can add all sorts of tasty flavors yourself. The hangop available in the shops is always always with apple, but clearly there are so many more tasty flavors!

So, what do you need for home-made hangop?

Essentials

• 1 liter of yoghurt
• Sieve
• Pan
• Clean tea towel

In addition

• Some powdered sugar or sweetener
• Perhaps fresh vanilla stick
• Fresh fruit or other tasty topping

How do you make hangop?

• Put a griddle or a sieve into a pan.
• The sieve should not touch the bottom of the pan
• Rinse a clean teatowel under the tap, twist out and then put the dampwet teatowel in the sieve
• The tips of the tea towel you can tie together, which eliminate a messes in the refrigerator later
• Now pour the yoghurt into the towel
• Cover it with a piece of plastic kitchen foil
• Put the yogurt sieve in the fridge for 8 hours
• The water will run out of the yogurt and end up in the pan under the sieve
• What remains in the tea towel is your basic homemade hangop
• Take the hangop with a spoon or spatula and put it it in a bowl

You now have home-made hangop. This you bring to taste with, for example, some powdered sugar or sweetener, you can also stir in some fresh vanilla. Ordinary, sugar is less suitable for stirring through the hangop. Ordinary crystalline sugar is a bit too grainy, so icing sugar is preferred.

You can make the hangop extra tasty by adding fresh fruit. You can also knock up some whipped cream and spatula that through the hangop. That's really delicious. Go wild with the toppings, or you can get or make cookies to go with the hangop. Hangop with Oreo springs to mind.

What kind of yoghurt do you use to make a hangover?
Hangop usually is made with full fat yogurt, but with lean yogurt you can also make a nice hangop. It's still bad calories. Farmers yogurt is usually a fuller kind of yogurt and it is often slightly milder, which also works fine.

Then why aren't these countries leaving the UN? It is not like membership is FREE!
http://www.un.org/en/ga/contributions/

Because its a good place for people like to do blah blah ! even trump said something similiar about it.

 

[shahbaz baig]

nothing will be there for netherland.

 

[Penguin]

nothing will be there for netherland.

Great, we'll be the only ones on the SC, all the better.

 

[waz]

The Netherlands is a responsible, forward-thinking and caring nation. Good to see them on board. I bet they will layer the UNSC table with tulips.

 

[Mangus Ortus Novem]

Scratch Iceland, pencil in ... Greece. Done!

Skyr is a high protein, low-fat product (of skimmed milk), varying slightly between brands. Unflavored skyr is roughly 12% protein, 3% carbohydrate, 0.5% fat, and high in calcium and vitamins commonly found in milk products
http://www.skyriceland.com/skyr.is-products

Strained yogurt, Greek yogurt, yogurt cheese, or labneh , is yogurt that has been strained to remove its whey, resulting in a thicker consistency than unstrained yogurt, while preserving yogurt's distinctive, sour taste. Like many types of yogurt, strained yogurt is often made from milk that has been enriched by boiling off some of its water content, or by adding extra butterfat and powdered milk. In Europe and North America, it is often made with low-fat or fat-free yogurt. In Scandinavia, particularly Iceland, a similar product, skyr is produced.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strained_yogurt

In the Netherlands, strained yogurt is known as hangop, literally meaning 'hang up'. It is a traditional dessert. Hangop may also be made using buttermilk.

Make your own Hangop (very easy!)

Making 'hangop' isn't really hard; within 5 minutes the preparations are done and you have only to wait until the it is ss ready. You can make hangop extra tasty by adding fresh fruit or whipped cream. Or what about hangop with a 'stroopwafel' ?

Delicious, old-fashioned hangop is an old typical Dutch dessert. Back in the day when there was no supermarket that had little buckets of hangop in the fridge/dairy department. In those days, they made hanop in a cloth, just as this recipe will show you. If you make hangop yourself, you can add all sorts of tasty flavors yourself. The hangop available in the shops is always always with apple, but clearly there are so many more tasty flavors!

So, what do you need for home-made hangop?

Essentials

• 1 liter of yoghurt
• Sieve
• Pan
• Clean tea towel

In addition

• Some powdered sugar or sweetener
• Perhaps fresh vanilla stick
• Fresh fruit or other tasty topping

How do you make hangop?

• Put a griddle or a sieve into a pan.
• The sieve should not touch the bottom of the pan
• Rinse a clean teatowel under the tap, twist out and then put the dampwet teatowel in the sieve
• The tips of the tea towel you can tie together, which eliminate a messes in the refrigerator later
• Now pour the yoghurt into the towel
• Cover it with a piece of plastic kitchen foil
• Put the yogurt sieve in the fridge for 8 hours
• The water will run out of the yogurt and end up in the pan under the sieve
• What remains in the tea towel is your basic homemade hangop
• Take the hangop with a spoon or spatula and put it it in a bowl

You now have home-made hangop. This you bring to taste with, for example, some powdered sugar or sweetener, you can also stir in some fresh vanilla. Ordinary, sugar is less suitable for stirring through the hangop. Ordinary crystalline sugar is a bit too grainy, so icing sugar is preferred.

You can make the hangop extra tasty by adding fresh fruit. You can also knock up some whipped cream and spatula that through the hangop. That's really delicious. Go wild with the toppings, or you can get or make cookies to go with the hangop. Hangop with Oreo springs to mind.

What kind of yoghurt do you use to make a hangover?
Hangop usually is made with full fat yogurt, but with lean yogurt you can also make a nice hangop. It's still bad calories. Farmers yogurt is usually a fuller kind of yogurt and it is often slightly milder, which also works fine.

Then why aren't these countries leaving the UN? It is not like membership is FREE!
http://www.un.org/en/ga/contributions/

Traditional hangop takes longer... need to hung all night.. in cheescloth...and then next day...wow... yummmmy...with cherries and some cherry sap... wow... groot oma used to make it on Kerst... learned from her...along with many secrets... and all those stories of the war... hoe opa met her...

On topic.. The Netherlands is a blessing to be had in the UNSC. The Dutch Diplomacy is extremely balanced and forward looking after all we are a trading nation. OVC.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Yadayadayada. You were still laughing at (the impotence of) your own country in this context. Is there a reason why China hasn't withdrawn from the UN and/or the SC after all those years? I mean, if it is so inconsequential?

Very easy to answer that.

China won't leave the UNSC because we have veto power. Which means we can veto any resolution we want, for whatever reason.

This is my entire point. The P5 is nothing more than a club of veto powers, using those veto powers and their seats to further their own national interests. While the P5 has failed their primary task of maintaining global peace and security, in fact most of the P5 members are currently in the process of dropping bombs in the Middle East as we speak.

I mean, if it is so inconsequential?

Strawman arguments again.

I never said the UNSC was "inconsequential", at all. What I said, if you read the first page, is that the UNSC has failed in its primary duty to maintain global peace and security.

If you are going to argue with me, at least argue against points that I have actually made.

 

[925boy]

India should become a permanent member soon.