UN Secretary-general Antonio Guterres claimed that the UNSC has been unable to keep up with the speed of a rapidly changing earth during a subsequent high-level discussion at the UN Security Council.
According to Al Jazeera, Guterres, who is campaigning for a permanent seats for Africa,” we may recognize that the world’s leading peace and security system lacks a continuous tone for a continent of well over a billion people.”
He emphasised that Africa’s opinions on peace and security, both within the globe and worldwide, are undervalued under the present arrangement.
The UNSC now consists of 15 people, including five permanent members with reject power—China, France, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The remaining ten votes are non-permanent, distributed locally, with three allocated to American states.
The United Nations General Assembly President Dennis Francis remarked that it is” completely bad” that Africa is still blatantly underrepresented in the Security Council, violating both the rights of equity and inclusion.
It “refuses the concept of sovereign equality of says” and calls for urgent changes to this organization to reflect the world as it is now, rather than as it was almost 80 years ago, Francis added.
In May, the UN Security Council ( UNSC ) demanded that African countries play a bigger role in addressing issues relating to global security and development.
