That draft resolution is not, apparently, to the taste of the representative of Germany, who would have liked Africa to support the draft resolution put forward by the group of four, even if it meant dividing itself.

The US drive to expand NATO is not shared by all its allies, and Europe is in no mood to follow in the footsteps of Georgia s impulsive president and be dragged by the ex Soviet Baltic states and Poland into a confrontation with Russia. Europe, dependent as it is on Russian energy supplies, is not prepared for a new Cold War, and its alternative to Russian oil Iran is not palatable to the Americans.