| Date | 30 October 1996 |
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| Started | 15:00 |
| Ended | 18:05 |
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Agenda item 47 (continued)
Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters
Mr. Baumanis (Latvia)
We are considering today the report and the addendum thereto of the Open-ended Working Group on the Question of Equitable Representation on and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council and Other Matters Related to the Security Council (A/50/47 and Add.1), which contain 15 reform proposals by Member States, as well as a description of measures already adopted by the Security Council to enhance its working methods and procedures. The two documents together constitute a very useful summary of the current status of the debate on the reform of the Security Council.
The Chairman of the Working Group, President Freitas do Amaral, and especially the two Vice-Chairmen, Mr. Breitenstein and Mr. Jayanama, deserve our deep gratitude for their competent, patient and untiring leadership of the Working Group.
Although initiatives to reform the Security Council have a history as long as the history of the United Nations itself, the current effort to reform the Security Council is the result of the end of the cold war.
The Working Group has made rather limited progress during the three years of its existence. During the fiftieth session of the General Assembly the Working Group reaffirmed the preliminary agreement reached in the previous session that the Security Council had to be expanded. The Group also agreed on the reasons why the expansion was needed. Views continued to differ on other matters, such as the size and composition of the Council and the right to veto.
The delegation of Latvia believes that the Member States have a collective responsibility to explore all possibilities for using the current partial agreement to reach consensus. When the Group resumes its work next year the time may be ripe to begin a systematic discussion of the procedure for implementing reform, since, in our view, the possibilities for debate on the controversial subjects were essentially exhausted during the preceding session.
One procedural possibility that appears promising to our delegation is a long-term, multi-stage procedure for expanding and changing the composition of the Security Council. The Group could, for example, explore a procedure that would make no changes with regard to the right to veto during the first stage of expansion, but would respond to the new situation created by the many, mostly small, States that have recently joined the United Nations.
Two observations should be made with regard to the proposal for gradual reform. First, a long-term, multi-stage approach is generally recognized as practical with regard to other controversial and complex processes, for example, general nuclear disarmament. Secondly, to arrive at consensus it would be most essential that during the first stage Member States would not need to make permanent and irreversible commitments on the controversial issues -- the composition of the Security Council, the use of the veto, and also the ultimate size of the Council.
Our delegation would also like to draw the attention of the General Assembly to the fact that the end of the cold war led to an increase in the number of Member States in the Eastern European Group of States. However, the number of seats allocated to the Group in many United Nations bodies has not changed. In this regard, we support the view of the delegation of Ukraine that
"any expansion of the Security Council should take into account the legitimate interests of the Eastern European regional group, which has more than doubled its membership in recent years". (Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-first Session, Plenary Meetings, 44th meeting, p. 2)
My delegation offers its modest proposals for serious consideration by other delegations and is ready to cooperate with them.
Mr. Abdellah (Tunisia)
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