Their dangerous situation — they were Jews — exacerbated their differences to an extreme degree, and demanded a resolution one way or the other.
Like many Serbs, they demanded a resolution condemning all crimes committed during the wars in the former Yugoslavia, especially those against Serbs.
When I arrived in Vienna for the board meeting in March, the Americans and their allies -- chiefly, the Canadians, the Australians and the British -- were demanding a resolution harshly criticizing Iranian noncompliance.
Earlier this month the Queensland premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, and South Australia premier, Jay Weatherill, wrote to Hockey demanding a resolution to the dispute over last year's budget cuts for pensioner concessions.
The demand, in a resolution that its backers knew would likely offend the United States, was vetoed by the American ambassador, Nikki R. Haley.
The American and British governments have also increased the pressure, with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Jack Straw, the British foreign minister, visiting last weekend to demand a quick resolution.
It could also demand a U.N. resolution condemning Syria for using chemical weapons on its people, a charge the Syrian authorities have repeatedly denied.
That month, The United States demanded that a resolution extending the United Nations force in East Timor include immunity from international prosecution.
Who could have predicted that so many countries would have signed Resolution 1441 and yet demanded a second resolution now?
