The fifty members which held, on turn, the most important organ of the international organisation, were going to meet in order to debate whether let the greatest human spaceship in all the history leave for the orbitant Martian station or procrastinate the journey to another, future date.
Of course was not decisive the vote, for the decision needed also to get the assent in the General Assembley by the majority of the two hundred states members left (not considering hencefor the vote of the fity sitting already in the GEG) but yet it was fundamental to get this first pass.
Timath Ghan was in charge as the first aide of the Indian Premier, the state hosting the great event.
It was up to him to check that anything were all right in the great adunancy room.
There were two opposite faction in the GEG as well as in the General Assembly: the remainers and the leavers.But none cuold predict which one was going to win.
His Country belonged to leavers.
The planet was too much polluted and too much crowded to be saved. The best minds had to go to colonize the space and there create a new habitat for the new generations to come afterwards.
The Earth had almost ten billions of inhabitants.
India alone counted almost two billions.
But the decision was not to be taken only on the base of the inhabitants but each Country had just one vote, provided that at least 75% of the population represented was in agreemnt with the decision to be taken.
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