After I sat down and prepared to gavel the meeting to a start, I scrolled through a stream of text messages that were pouring in to my phone: “We want to cosponsor.” “We are in.” “Count on us.” “Thank you for US leadership.” I showed the texts to Rabia Qureshi, the foreign service officer at the mission who covered West Africa. She shook her head in disbelief and told me that, at last count, we had a breathtaking 100 country cosponsors. Ten minutes later, we had 20 more. By the time the sponsors’ list closed, we had 134, the largest number of cosponsors for any Security Council resolution in
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