UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan, member of the Uniting for Consensus (UfC) group which opposes new permanent members within the UN Security Council, has reaffirmed its demand for adding more non-permanent seats to the 15-member frame so as to make it greater powerful, representative and responsible. “The UfC continues to believe that its proposal for an enlargement of Security Council club to 26 or 27, with the addition of 11 or 12 new non-everlasting contributors, offers the best foundation for Security Council reform,” Ambassador Munir Akram, permanent consultant to the UN, advised delegates while the deadlocked Inter-Governmental Negotiations (IGN) aimed toward restructuring the Council resumed on Tuesday. The UfC’s idea to feature handiest non-everlasting individuals, elected periodically via the General Assembly, is “democratic and regular” with the Charter’s prescription that the Council “acts on behalf” of the complete membership, he stated, including it’s going to also make sure “equitable illustration” – the key objective of the Council reform system. Full-scale negotiations to reform the Security Council began in the General Assembly in February 2009 on five key areas – the types of membership, the question of veto, nearby illustration, size of an enlarged Security Council, and working techniques of the council and its courting with the General Assembly. Progress closer to reforming the Security Council remains blocked as G-4 countries – India, brazil, Germany and Japan – maintain pushing for everlasting seats inside the Council, at the same time as the Italy/Pakistan-led UfC group opposes any extra everlasting individuals. As a compromise, UfC has proposed a brand new class of individuals – now not everlasting participants – with longer length in terms and a possibility to get re-elected. The Security Council is currently composed of 5 permanent contributors – Britain, China, France, Russia and the US – and 10 non-permanent contributors elected to two-yr phrases. Participating in a dialogue on the ‘Categories of Membership and Cross-nearby Representation’, Ambassador Akram rejected claims with the aid of the aspirants of permanent club approximately their reference to ‘new realities’, saying that there are greater than four or six states, probably 20, which are making extra contribution to peace and protection than the four pushing for the everlasting category.
