Professor Ronan McNulty:

Certainly Israel has a vote on the council. The United States joined in a very special way just before work on the LHC started. I honestly do not know what are its voting rights. We would have to ask CERN's international relations expert about it as I cannot say. I think it is just members that can vote, but there is some discussion at CERN about who is entitled to be a full member. It certainly started off in 1954 as a European organisation, but, to be quite honest, today it is a world organisation. It is not just a European organisation. As I said, there is some debate at CERN about who can and cannot be a full member. It is becoming a world organisation.