“I would like to say that for the first time it will be possible to seriously discuss this reform, because the discussion so far has been a joke, quite frankly. Because there was no basic document for the discussion and there was no report on the discussion. Or in the sense that every year the committee takes the oath, it worked Committee for a year, and there was no “input” to this committee and there was no “output” that this committee could give,” Analyzed by António Guterres.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations was responding to a question during the “Prime Minister’s Series” public event, with Prime Minister of Cape Verde Ulysses Correa e Silva, in Mindelo, São Vicente Island, where he is visiting.
“If you had asked me that question a year ago, I would have clearly said no. When you ask it now, something strange happened at the last UN General Assembly,” he began by noting when answering the question about the possibility of advancing Security Council reform during his tenure.
He pointed out that in that General Assembly, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, was “open to the presence of permanent members of the Council from Africa” and from Latin America, and that the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Sergey Lavrov, “welcomes the accession of Brazil and India to the Security Council,” said Sergey Lavrov. .
“Obviously, the United States and Russia or the Russian Federation are two key pieces to the possibility of any reform (…) Now, I think there are conditions for the committee that deals with Security Council reform to start an effective and serious discussion. Will this discussion lead to any result or not It’s still too early to say because we all know the difficulties.”
He said the difficulties are caused by the five permanent members of the Security Council that have veto power (China, the United States, Russia, France and the United Kingdom) and “relations between other countries, in choosing who represents other regions.”
“And we know that this problem also exists. So I don’t want to give false hope. But for the first time there will be a serious discussion,” he admitted.
Antonio Guterres kicked off a three-day visit to Cape Verde today, as part of the Ocean Race, the world’s largest regatta that stops from January 20-25 on the Cape Verde island of Sao Vicente, participating on Monday, also in Mindelo. At the top of the ocean.
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