Australian foreign minister says security council must be more representative or risk becoming an ‘anachronism’
“The rest of the permanent members and all member states must be unyielding in our response to Russia’s grave violation of Article II of our shared UN charter.”or political independence of any state”., has weathered decades of demands for change, but its reform is one of the UN’s longest-running and – to date – insoluble debates.
“We should recognise that the UN finds itself in a deadlock on the matters of aggression. Humankind no longer pins its hopes on the UN when it comes to the defence of the sovereign borders of nations.” And in 2019, then new Australian ambassador to the UN, former Liberal senator Mitch Fifield, argued the security council needed “to reform and evolve to… reflect contemporary geopolitical realities, with greater representation for Asia, Africa and Latin America”.
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