Montreal, Quebec, Canada, December 1, 2005

THIS IS A CORRECTION OF THE ARTICLE OF TWO DAYS AGO.

AS I WAS NOT ABLE TO OBTAIN AN OFFICIAL LIST OF THE WHITE-LABELED PLACE TAGS OF THE PLENARY HALL I HAD TO RESORT AT COPYING THEM WHEN THE PLENARY WAS NOT IN SESSION.
AS SUCH I MISSED SEVERAL TAGS IN MY FIRST ATTEMPT AND THUS MY MATHEMATICS AND INTERPRETATION IN THE NOVEMBER 29 ARTICLE WERE WRONG.

The white-labeled tags I missed were: Cap-Vert, Liban, Nepal, Republique-Arabe-Syrienne (that is Syria), Sao-Tome-et-Principe, and Zimbabwe. These 6 Member States of the UN, when added to the 29 States listed in the previous article add up to 35 States that did not Accept the Kyoto Protocol.

Further, when we add to these 35 States also the 5 UN Member States that did not even become members of the UNFCCC, we get 40 States that do not participate in the KP of the UNFCCC.
Considering that the UN has 191 Member States according to the UN official document, that means, 151 States should be listed as maximum of the number of States that accepted the obligation to implement the KP. But the UN released the number of such States as 157. This is bewildering to me and I wonder what else besides the European Union, and sometimes Palestine or the Vatican, is included in official UN numbers. It seems that the UN owes, for transparency sake, to clarify these figures.

The corrected list of the White Tags/Black Holes, in according to the French spelling, is thus:
Afghanistan, Andorre, Angola, Australie, Bahrein, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brunei-Darussalam, Cap-Vert, Comores, Congo, Cote-d’Ivoire,Croatie, Etats-Unis (that is the US), Gabon, Guinee-Bissau, Iraq, Jamahiriya-Arabe-Libyenne (that is Lybia), Kazakhstan, Liban, Monaco, Nepal, Republique-Arabe-Syrienne (that is Syria), Republique-Centreafricaine (that is the CentralAfrican Republic), Republique-Populaire-Democratique-de-Coree (that is North Korea), Saint-Kitts-et-Navis, Saint-Marin, Sao-Tome-et-Principe, Somalie, Swaziland, Tadjikistan, Tchad (that is Chad), Timor-Leste, Tonga, Turquie (that is Turkey), Zambie, and Zimbabwe.

Reviewing above list, one sees the US not just among its twin Australia, its dependencies Afghanistan and Iraq, its friends, Bahrain, Kazakhstan, Tadjikistan, and Turkey, but also among its sworn enemies - or the axis of evil - Lybia, North Korea, and Syria, States in conflict like Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Congo, as well as other unsavory, or plain fallen, States like Somalia and Zimbabwe. Yes there are on that list also Andorra, Brunei-Darussalam, Monaco, Saint-Kitts-et-Navis, San-Marin, Sao-Tome-et-Principe, Timor-Leste, and Tonga, but these States are not considered as potential UN leaders. In any case - this is an interesting list of “confreres” for the United States. Make of this what you want, but I would not be surprised at you expressing wonderment like I did.