Opinion
Who can get Permanent Seats
in the UN Security Council?
by TA Ramesh
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Many world countries want permanent seats in the United Nations Security
Council (UNSC). So, initially it is better if Brazil, Germany, India and
Japan (G 4) drop the demand for Veto Power for getting permanent
membership in the UN Security Council. But the supporting countries are
more interested in the UN Reform than in the expansion of UNSC now.
Also, though India has bright chance, the African Union that demands two
permanent seats has to be satisfied too. So, the UNSC expansion is not
going to be immediately possible, it seems.
UN Report
The UN High Panel Reform Committee has suggested in its Report that
inclusion of only one or two permanent and 8 non-permanent members can
make the UNSC effectively workable council. Permanent member countries
are not interested in the expansion of UNSC from 15 to 25; but they
believe 20 will be effective as more members will make it divisive and
unviable for effective work.
Purpose of UN Reform
The purpose of making UN Reform now is to make it democratically more
effective and powerful to perform its functions. The world security lies
in the hands of the permanent five member countries, which is not fair.
So it is necessary that UNSC should be expanded with reasonable number
of representatives covering all the key nations of the world. Also,
since it is concerned with the world security, the new member countries
should be advanced, developed and powerful economically,
technologically, militarily, politically and socially, which means that
wide possible agreement of countries is imperative in this matter.
Permanent Seats in UNSC
According to USA it is said that America likes to seek support on UN
Reform for Economic Budgeting and Management, establishing Peace Keeping
Commission, Human Rights Council, Democracy Fund, Democracy initiative
within the UN and countering Terrorism and Non-Proliferation before
taking up the issue of UNSC expansion. Also, the American criteria for
selecting permanent members in the UNSC would be Economic Size,
Population, commitment to Democracy, Financial Contribution to the UN
and Contribution in Peace Keeping, Record on Non-Proliferation and
fighting Terrorism. So, on analysis, it can be inferred that India and
Japan are suitable for permanent membership and countries like Brazil,
South Africa, Egypt, Turkey, Romania, Kazakhstan, Indonesia and
Australia are suitable for non-permanent membership in the United
Nations Security Council.
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