This time, she said, South Africa will not be able to block resolutions calling for more sanctions because South Africa will no longer hold a seat on the council in 2009.
However, Team Cameron does want to try to stop Labour regaining economic credibility by allying themselves with the new kid on the European block and by calling for both a European and a British plan for growth.
Mr Hummler, who is also chairman of the Swiss daily newspaper Neuer Zuercher Zeitung, has previously been unusually outspoken among Swiss bankers in calling for the country's authorities to block any disclosure of banking client details to the US authorities.