Guterres proposes to give Africa one permanent membership in UN Security Council

As a result of the UN Security Council reform, one African country should be given a permanent seat in the organization, UN Secretary-General António Guterres believes.

He made the proposal at the ongoing African Climate Summit in Nairobi, Caliber.Az reports, citing the UN's website.

“We need an international financial system with an architecture that favours developing countries in general and in particular African countries, and we need a reform of the Security Council in which Africa finally gets at least one permanent seat,” Guterres said.

According to him, global institutions created after the Second World War, when Africa was under the rule of colonial powers, creates injustice, which today definitely affects the African context.

“Global institutions need to step up, guarantee African representation, and respond to African needs and African potential. From international financial institutions to the Security Council of the United Nations, where Africa lacks a permanent seat,” he added.

The UN Council was created in 1945. Now it includes 15 countries, of which five are permanent members (Russia, Great Britain, China, USA and France), and another 10 are non-permanent. Since 2022, African countries Gabon, Ghana and Kenya are non-permanent members of the Council. Only permanent members have the right to veto. According to António Guterres, most of the UN countries recognize the necessity of reforming this organization.