"Developing Nations Block U.N. Proposal"
This comes off as another 'developing nations are telling everyone what to do' article...but then you can easily lead the print later. It's actually a 'underdeveloped nations telling the world what to do' article.
Let me show you here:
At the core of the debate were two proposals that would take some power away from the U.N. General Assembly, where each of the 191 member states gets one vote.
One would give more power over the U.N. budget to a small group of nations.
The other would empower the secretary-general to decide when to cut staff and make other managerial decisions.
The resolution proposed by the Group of 77 and China, which includes more than 130 countries, passed by a vote of 108 to 50, with three abstentions. Opposing were nations that collectively contribute some 85 percent of the annual U.N. budget, among them members of the European Union, the United States, Japan and Australia.
...The vote also was a shock because 20 years of tradition had stipulated that decisions in the budget committee would be adopted by consensus, ensuring that more numerous poor nations could not always impose their will on those contributing most of the money to the budget.
[Taken from HERE from Wired News.]
This is interesting to me...while it has a certain "Ha Ha" to it, I can't help but be the customer who feels like their paying for a faulty product.