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United States and China hesitate on expanding U.N. Security Council to include Germany, Japan, India and Brazil
Are super powers scared of new super powers in the block? The privileged always try to keep their status and power intact. The United States and China on May 17 showed hesitation regarding a proposal by Germany, Japan, India and Brazil to expand the U.N. Security Council. The proposal calls for council membership to increase from 15 to 25 members, and include six new permanent members. The countries are scheduled to introduce the resolution in June 2005.
India, Brazil, Germany and Japan represent four separate zones of the world. They represent a lot of “heavy weight” in terms of population, fiscal strength and technical capabilities. The inclusion of these mini superpowers can just help the UN Security Council and UN in General. The recent revelation of kickbacks and corruption surround “oil for food” program makes it more sense to expand the Security Council as much as possible so that these kinds of corruption can be exposed as well as avoided.
The UN Security Council represents a few oligarchies in the world. A few dominate the world with the power of Veto as well the final power to determine outcome of serious issues, conflicts and regional as well as global political issues.
How about trying to convert that oligarchy of five to a larger number? Otherwise, the alternative is real democracy – allowing the General Assembly to decide all issues without any veto power for any one.
Recently UN operations have proved to be less effective because less than fair participation by individual member countries. The feeling among countries who are not a member of the UN Security Council is that let those five share all the burden – why us? That is not good either. It should not be that United States has to pay for the majority of the expenses. All the nations should share based on their size of GDP and nature of balance of payments or foreign exchange reserves.
But for that to happen, the UN Security Council needs to be expanded. The expansion should not create second-class countries that will not have veto power.
It is time for all in the current UN Security Council think well before making a decision. If their decision is to maintain status quo, the UN as it stands today, may not exist for long.
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