Germany and Japan will not be able to penetrate the UN Security Council - Lavrov
The UN Security Council should expand to include the rapidly developing countries of the Global East and South - but not new NATO representatives.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated this during the scientific conference “Euromaidan: the lost decade of Ukraine,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Now the situation on the world stage is changing, economic giants are rising - China, India, Brazil. There are movements in Africa in favor of abandoning the vestiges of colonial policy. And of course, it is necessary to ensure that representatives of the developing world are admitted to the Security Council.
We have publicly said that we support India and Brazil as candidates for permanent Security Council membership. With the understanding that this will come with additional African presence.
We have warned our Indian and Brazilian friends, and we explain at every step, that we do not accept the addition of any new Western representative to the Security Council. Now out of 15 members in the Security Council, 6 represent the West, sometimes Japan is also added. Therefore, additional seats for the Western group will only deepen injustice,” Lavrov said.
“And when Germany and Japan pretend to enter the Security Council together with India and Brazil, they will not succeed. Firstly, purely arithmetically it is disproportionate.
But in essence - name me at least one issue in international politics on which Germany and Japan would have their own position. No one. They were all built by the West.
In general, there were sound thoughts - maybe leaving one seat in the Security Council for the collective West and for NATO?” the minister added.
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