A few delegations showed up empty-handed.
On Monday morning, most of Libya's neighbours will meet in Cairo to discuss responses to the latest Libyan crisis, and few delegations will want as swift a resolution as Egypt's.
She argued that the vote was flawed because too few national delegations were present.
Few official delegations have added civil society to their governmental delegations, in contrast to the symbolic inclusion of civil society representatives (including youth) on many delegations in 1992.
American diplomats have been consulting with a few other delegations, mostly Europeans as well as Burkina Faso, on the text of a Security Council resolution to put in place an arms embargo as well as travel and financial measures against officials who undermined the elections.
One quarantine is under way in Seattle, where a trade delegation returning from Shanghai was met with enough suspicion to keep a few delegates away from work.
To name a few: Maori, Muslims, delegations of priests and ministers, people from more than ninety Native Nations, plus any number of Europeans, and various rock stars.
A few of the delegations insisted that they had different counts than the Convention secretary did, and there were empty seats in the Minnesota and Virginia delegations, among others, but few enough that it seemed more like a slink-out than a walkout.
And in Harris County's case, not counting them as residents means one state representative fewer in the local delegation.
Western officials, however, claimed the fact that a substantive discussion about Iran's nuclear activities had taken place at all was a sign of progress and, barring a walkout by the Iranian delegation, should be enough to carry the talks through another round in the next few weeks, once the delegations had consulted their capitals.
