Later all European Union member States with ambassadors in Nepal separately recalled their ambassadors for consultations in view of the seriousness of developments there.

They acknowledged that under the city's special constitution, the Basic Law, these elections could be the first opportunities for the territory to choose its representatives according to the principle of one person, one vote.

The lesson is that Commissioners should focus on their specific tasks, bearing in mind the interests of the EU rather than those of their country of origin.

As the Chilean economist and politician Carlos Ominami put it The children of democracy have become the prime movers of change the social movement they represent lacks political leadership, and the country s political forces have practically broken off all their connections to the social world.

Such observers may, upon invitation of the President, participate without the right to vote in the proceedings of any meeting in matters of direct concern to the body or agency they represent, unless at least one third of the Parties present at the meeting object.

The US and those representing it have been guilty of hubris (the US may often be the indispensable nation, but it would be better if others pointed this out), and examples of inconsistency between America s practices and its principles understandably provoke charges of hypocrisy.

It does not reflect the influence of some new regional powers, while immorally equating countries whose representatives are democratically elected and those whose representatives speak only for themselves or their juntas, at best.