The next president of the UN General Assembly will be a Libyan politician, marking another step for the once-isolated country as it seeks an increasingly larger role in world affairs.
Ali Abdessalam Treki, who has been in charge of his nation's relationship with the Africa Union, won election Wednesday by acclamation rather than a vote in the General Assembly, the world's forum for debate among 192 member nations.
The one-year post rotates among nations on a regional basis. Treki, Libya's minister for AU affairs, will assume the new job when the assembly convenes in mid-September for its annual high-level ministerial debate.
16:00 Marilyn Mach Vos Savant, the world's smartest person (with an IQ way beyond Mensa) asks the defining question about the Middle East that culminates in an answer much like Webster Tarpley (Israel is the cat's paw of the US) at 21:30 but I wonder how an IQ of 230 processes that. I hope we can see Marilyn again on Harold's show today.
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