The Lib Dem leader recalls how the 1975 referendum on Britain's EEC membership failed to resolve differences over Europe in spite of the emphatic yes vote.
"We are obviously disappointed that the Cites membership failed to give greater protection to polar bears by limiting permissible trade in polar bear pelts and other body parts," David J. Hayes, a deputy secretary of the United States Department of the Interior, said in an e-mailed statement.
"We are obviously disappointed that the CITES membership failed to give greater protection to polar bears by limiting permissible trade in polar bear pelts and other body parts," David J. Hayes, deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, said in a statement.
If the membership bid fails in the Security Council, the General Assembly is expected to take up the matter.
With China strongly opposed to United Nations membership for Taiwan, which it regards as a breakaway province, the island's recent efforts to win membership have failed.
Turkey would not suddenly become like Iran if its membership bid failed.
Those who ask the public to support leaving, after 40 years of membership, have failed to set out an alternative that empowers rather than weakens Britain.
The plan set forth by the NRA this morning -- a woefully inadequate and misdirected response -- simply does not venture to do that, and through that omission, fails its membership.
In Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel told his cabinet that the Palestinian membership drive would fail.
Although the repeatedly failed membership efforts were seen by some as a "fiasco", after more than ten years of applying, there was a general sense of frustration with the continued refusal to grant WHA observer status.
