Cleverly to call for UN Security Council expansion at ‘turning point of history’

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Foreign Secretary is expected to call for an expansion of the United Nations Security Council to better respond to international crises such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Mr Cleverly will argue that, with the world currently “living through a turning point in the history of humanity”, the make-up should change, urging permanent African representation and membership for India, Brazil, Germany and Japan on the international security panel. In the 2020s, as in the 1940s, we are living through a turning point in the history of humanity Foreign Secretary James Cleverly The G20 should also be widened, Mr Cleverly will tell the conference, with permanent membership for the African Union, a body that has a membership of 55 countries. The Foreign Secretary is expected to say: “Global multilateralism brings the sheer heft that is needed to tackle humanity’s most fundamental challenges.