UN|President Alexander Stubb told Reuters in an interview that he would propose changes to the composition of the UN Security Council and the right of veto of its permanent members.
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President Stubb proposes reforming the UN Security Council.
University lecturer Hanna Tuominen and emeritus professor Martti Koskenniemi consider the proposals unrealistic.
Stubb proposes removing the right of veto and increasing the number of permanent members.
Finland is seeking to become a member of the Security Council for the period 2029–2030.
Republic presidential by Alexander Stubb the proposals for reforming the UN Security Council are unrealistic, according to the university lecturer in political science at the University of Helsinki Hanna Tuominen and Emeritus Professor of International Law Martti Koskenniemi.
Stubb claimed the news agency on Wednesday In an interview with Reutersthat the right of veto of the permanent members of the UN Security Council should be waived. He also suggested that the number of permanent members of the Security Council be increased from the current five to ten.
He said he plans to propose changes at the UN General Assembly in New York next week.
According to Koskenniemi, these two questions are also central to the reform project that has been ongoing at the UN since the end of the Cold War.
“There has been no progress on these issues since the 1990s and hardly any now,” he states.
“In the early stages of the reform in the 1990s, it was possible to reform the procedures of the Security Council to be more transparent,” Koskenniemi mentions.
Security Council permanent members are Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States. In addition to these, it includes ten rotating members who are elected from among the UN member countries for two years at a time.
According to Stubb, one of the new members of the Security Council should come from Latin America, two from Africa and two from Asia. In his opinion, it should also be possible to remove members from the council in the future.
The President of the Republic, Alexander Stubb, gave an interview to the news agency Reuters about Finland’s goals regarding the UN Security Council in his temporary official residence in Munkkiniemi.
University lecturer According to Hanna Tuominen, Stubb’s exit is probably linked to Finland’s own ongoing Security Council membership campaign.
Finland aims to become a rotating member of the UN Security Council for the period 2029–2030. The last time Finland sought the same position for the 2013–2014 season, it lost a place in the vote to Luxembourg and Australia, despite a long campaign. Since then, similar presentations from the UN have hardly been seen in public.
At that time too, Stubb campaigned for the Finnish Security Council. He served as Finland’s foreign minister from 2008 to 2011 and as Europe and foreign trade minister from 2011 to 2014. According to Tuominen, Stubb also played a key role in Finland’s UN strategy in writing, which was completed in 2013. It has not been updated since then.
“UN politics is precisely the arena where Finland needs to conduct this campaign. From there, Finland should seek support from those parties who do not necessarily agree with Finland on everything. In the Security Council elections, it is not enough to get votes from the EU, the United States, Canada and other close partners, but it is necessary to be aware of the broad global dimension”, says Tuominen.
In order for a country to be elected as a rotating member of the Security Council, it must have the support of two-thirds of the UN member states.
in the UN According to Koskenniemi, there is a broad consensus that the Security Council should be reformed. There is a thing presented by among others, the Secretary General of the UN Antonio Guterres.
The problem, however, is that there is no consensus on how the reform should be done.
According to Koskenniemi, at the heart of the problem are four central groups whose interests are in conflict with each other. The first includes Japan, Germany, India and Brazil, which demand a permanent seat on the Security Council. The second includes the countries under their influence, which oppose the permanent membership of the countries listed above.
The third group is the African countries, which have claimed for themselves a significantly greater importance than they currently have. Fourth, the current permanent members of the Security Council, especially China, Russia and the United States, are not ready to give up their right of veto.
“The steps of progress are therefore hardly known. However, this kind of making your own unrealistic proposals is part of typical UN policy, which is used to send messages to other member countries,” Koskenniemi states.
“This is the way of diplomacy at the UN. In the next few years, we will certainly see similar shows with which Finland tries to communicate”, Tuominen, on the other hand, states.
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