Havana, Cuba, May 9 (acn) Cuba reiterated on Tuesday at the United Nations in New York its call to increase the number of countries to the South at the Security Council with the objective of balancing the world body, reported Prensa Latina News Agency.
The current composition of the Security Council does not reflect the geo political realities and must be reorganized and there is no doubt that the developing countries are not represented, said the Cuban ambassador to the UN Humberto Rivero.
According to the Cuban diplomat, the reorganization process must include three key issues: regional representation, the size and categories of its members.
The current Security Council includes five nations with permanent status: the United States, Russia, China, France and Britain and 10 other countries rotate every two years.
The main objective of the expansion is to rectify the lack of representation of the developing nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America which minimizes the interests of the Security Council, its authority and credibility, said Rivero.
According to the Cuban representative, the expansion must increase into new permanent members in particular with two countries of each one of the three regions.
He added that the new permanent members must have the same prerogatives and rights of the current Security Council members, including the veto rights, without selective of discriminatory criteria.
Regarding the countries that rotate every two years, Rivero recalled that Cuba defends the idea of increasing the membership to at least 15 members.
The Cuban ambassador insisted for the Caribbean island urges for an increase of a minimum of 11 States in the Security Council, which would total at least 26.
With this figure, the proportion among members of the Security Council and the UN member states would be similar to the amount that the world body had when it was founded in 1945, said Rivero.
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