Guterres Calls For UN Security Council Reform, Says Africa’s Exclusion “indefensible”
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The current UN Secretary-General, whose term ends at the end of the year, delivered his last opening address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, 22 September. An intervention in which Antonio Guterres defended the vision of a more egalitarian world, suggesting, among other things, that world leaders reform the Security Council to give Africa a permanent place at its table.
Guterres calls for UN Security Council reform, says ‘It must reflect today’s world’
India too has for years called for an expansion of the Security Council in both its permanent and non-permanent categories, arguing that a body created in 1945 cannot adequately represent the geopolitical and economic realities of today’s world.
Guterres Calls For UN Security Council Reform, Says Africa’s Exclusion “indefensible”
Guterres calls for UN Security Council reform, says Africa’s exclusion “indefensible” By Cecilia Ologunagba New York, U.S., (NAN) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called for Security Council reform, saying that the continued absence of permanent African representation on the body was “unjust and indefensible.” Guterres spoke at the opening of the General Debate of the 81st session of the UN News Agency of Nigeria
NEW YORK- On the occasion of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly, the UN Secretary-General made a plea for global governance reform. Denouncing a historical injustice resulting from the colonial period, António Guterres called on UN member states to grant the African continent a
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