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#94026. crazycube
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What countries that are currently eligible to join the United Nations have not done so, and any notable reasons why?
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Perhaps the most notable and topical would be the case of Taiwan.
The issue: Taiwan wants to become a member of the United Nations. However, it lost its seat in that body in 1971, when the U.N. chose to recognize the People's Republic of China instead. There can be only one China in the world, the U.N. decided, and the government in Beijing runs it. That government regards the island of Taiwan as a breakaway province that must accept reunification with the Chinese motherland and someday hopes to win it back.
The U.S. seems adamant about not recognizing Taiwan (officially, the Republic of China) as an independent, sovereign nation.
Taiwan's democratically elected president, Chen Shui-bian, of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, has called for an islandwide referendum to be held alongside the presidential election that will take place on March 22.
The opposition Kuomintang party has proposed a similar refendum. The purpose of the referendums: to obtain Taiwanese voters' approval for their government to seek U.N. membership under its own name for their island that maybe is or maybe isn't a sovereign country.
 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=15&entry_id=24514
Mar 28 08, 4:52 AM
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