Wu Zhaohua: Difference between revisions

On 1 February 2001 Wu Zhaohua became the Chinese Permanent Representative to the League of Nations. Controversially, in November 2002 during an LN Security Council meeting regarding the situation in {{W|Iraq}} and {{W|Saddam Hussein}}'s weapons of mass destruction, Wu abstained during the voting on {{W|United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441|LN Security Council Resolution 1441}}. The resolution would later be used as the legal justification for the invasion of Iraq in 2003 by the [[Anglo-America]]n countries. China being the only one among the fifteen permanent and non-permanent members of the Security Council to abstain from the vote was seen by observers over the next decade as the beginning of the deterioration in relations between China and the Western democracies.

Besides his native Chinese, he also speaks fluent English and {{W|French language|French}}.