We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration.

A. S. His brother Michel Negroponte is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and his other brother George Negroponte is an artist and was President of the Drawing Center from 2002-2007.

John Dimitri Negroponte (pron. Prior to this appointment he served as the United States Deputy Secretary of State and as the first ever Director of National Intelligence.