UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan called for reforming the UN Security Council “through negotiations and widest possible consensus” as the General Assembly on Thursday launched negotiations aimed at making the 15-member body more effective and more representative to meet the 21st century challenges.
“Our positions will conform to the principles of sovereign equality of states and equitable geographical distribution,” Pakistan’s U.N. Ambassador Abdullah Hussain Haroon told an informal meeting of the 192-member assembly where talks began on five key issues, including the size, composition and power of an expanded council.
“We shall work for a reform model that is responsive to the substantial increase in the number of developing countries in the UN membership since the 60s,” in an obvious reference to dominance of the big powers in the council. “We would prioritize regional interests over individual interests, through accommodation of positions of all member states and regional and other groupings, including in particular Africa and the OIC.”
The council’s reform, which got underway some 16 years ago, was backed by the 2005 world summit held at UN Headquarters in New York. There is widespread support for revamping the U.N.’s most powerful organ to reflect current global realities rather than the international power structure after World War II when the United Nations was created. But all previous attempts, starting in 1979, have failed because rivalries between countries and regions blocked agreement on how to expand the council.
source : jang.com.pk
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