| Date | 30 October 2001 |
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| Started | 15:00 |
| Ended | 18:10 |
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The President
In order to expedite our work, I should now like to consult the Assembly with a view to considering immediately draft resolution A/56/L.6. In this connection, since document A/56/L.6 has been circulated only this morning, it would be necessary to waive the relevant of rule 78 of the rules of procedure, which reads as follows:
"As a general rule, no proposal shall be discussed or put to the vote at any meeting of the General Assembly unless copies of it have been circulated to all delegations not later than the day preceding the meeting."
Unless I hear any objection, I shall take it that the Assembly agrees to consider draft resolution A/56/L.6.
The President
The Assembly will now take a decision on draft resolution A/56/L.6.
May I take it that the Assembly decides to adopt draft resolution A/56/L.6?
The President
As a result of the resolution just adopted, agenda item 48, "Causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa", originally scheduled for Thursday, 8 November, will now be taken up on Monday and Tuesday, 3 and 4 December 2001.
The General Assembly has thus concluded this stage of its consideration of agenda item 25.
Before we proceed further, I should like to refer to the general debate in the General Assembly at its current session. As members will recall, at the 16th plenary meeting of the General Assembly, on 3 October 2001, I informed representatives that the General Assembly will devote seven days instead of 10 days to the general debate during the session -- from Saturday, 10 November, through Friday, 16 November, including Sunday, 11 November. There will be two meetings a day, the morning meetings from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and the afternoon meetings from 3 to 7 p.m. Consequently, there will be 14 plenary meetings instead of 20, and we will therefore have fewer hours for statements in the general debate.
As I did at the 16th plenary meeting, I will again appeal to members to urge speakers in the general debate to limit their statements to 15 minutes so that all the speakers can be accommodated within those seven days. I would be grateful for members' kind cooperation.
I should also like to inform members that list of speakers number 5 for the general debate is now ready and will be faxed to delegations some time today. Copies of the list are also available in room 2925.
Agenda item 49
Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters
Mr. Valdivieso (Colombia)
The consideration in the plenary General Assembly of the reform of the Security Council for several years shown that this is one of the items of the greatest importance, but also of the greatest complexity, on our agenda. We know that under your leadership, Mr. President, it will be possible to have a frank and productive discussion that will lead us to a full consideration of the central elements. This debate that must be geared towards strengthening the Organization in order to provide it with a Security Council in which all Member States can feel duly represented.
We should like to begin our statement with a reaffirmation of the centrality of the question of the veto. This privilege, conferred on only five Members of the United Nations, has implications for the functioning of the Council and for the very possibilities of agreeing on reform. While we do not disregard the fact that there is a close relationship between the exercise of the veto or the threat of its exercise on the one hand, and the functioning of the Council on the other, it is on the aspect of reform that we should like to share some brief thoughts.
As Colombia sees it, the question of the veto is tied closely to the subject of the expansion of the membership of the Council. We believe it would be contradictory to criticize this privilege, as we have been doing, and at the same time agree that there are some States that might have sufficient credentials to be granted the power to veto decisions in an expanded Council. Clearly, the existence of the veto, and the lack of political will to limit it, makes it even more difficult for us to arrive at a broad agreement that makes it possible to expand the Council.
Nonetheless, there is general consensus that the expansion should be in the category of non-permanent members. For this reason, progress in that direction would enhance the legitimacy of the Council and its credibility within and outside the United Nations.
In addition to the essential issue to which we have just referred, there are some procedural questions on which we should like to make a few comments.
First, we favour intensifying the productive dialogue between the General Assembly and the Security Council on the item that is now before us. The exchange of views we had in June of this year in one of the sessions of the Open-ended Working Group served to highlight the fact that non-members of the Council have valid concerns about the Council's activities and working methods that should be duly considered by members of that body. This example should be followed during the meetings of the Working Group next year. We wish to affirm, as of now, our readiness to participate once again and to contribute to the success of that exchange.
Secondly, we wish to emphasize that the Open-ended Working Group continues to be the appropriate forum to discuss reform of the Security Council in all its aspects. Colombia believes that it would be inconceivable to create alternative forums in which only a few would participate, when we have an open, democratic, transparent and representative mechanism to consider substantive items -- cluster I -- and procedural issues -- cluster II.
Some will say that the Working Group has failed because there has not been any significant progress in the reform of the Council. But the cause of this -- if it is a fact -- cannot be the format we are using in considering the subject of reform, but, rather, the pernicious combination of the lack of realism in the aspirations of some members and the lack of political will to achieve reform on the part of others.
As elected members of the Council, we wish to express, thirdly, our commitment to do everything in our power to implement some of the suggestions that have been made in the Working Group on procedural issues.
Just recently, we have contributed to bringing about the convening of the working group on documentation and procedures despite some disagreement and reluctance on the part of some members of the Council and of prominent Secretariat officials. We commend the courage and decisiveness shown by Ambassador Richard Ryan of Ireland, President of the Council during the month of October, in his efforts to bring about that meeting. We will try to ensure that the opinions expressed by those who will be participating in the debate on the report submitted by that body to the General Assembly will be appropriately taken into consideration.
I wish to conclude this statement by affirming our commitment to the achievement of comprehensive reform of the Security Council in all its aspects. The new structure of the international system and the current nature of the threats to international peace and security will give rise to tremendous responsibilities for each of our States. It is a new context that requires a more sound debate on the way of maximizing the legitimacy and the representativity of the Security Council.
Mr. Satoh (Japan)
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