U.S. wants to expand permanent seats on U.N. Security Council : State of the World from NPR The Security Council is the United Nations' most powerful body, with the ability to impose sanctions and authorize the use of force. The U.S. is proposing expanding the number of permanent members, including two permanent seats for African countries. State of the World …
UNITED NATIONS — The United States announced Thursday that it will support the addition of two new permanent seats for African countries on the powerful U.N. Security Council — and a first-ever non-permanent seat for a small island developing nation. While Africa has three non-permanent seats on the Security Council, that doesn’t allow African countries “to deliver the full benefit …
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has underlined the need to "modernise" the U.N. Security Council by making it more inclusive and increasing the number of permanent seats in the global body, a "long-standing" goal of India. "We recognise that to meet the challenges we face, members of the U.N. must not only uphold the charter but also modernise the …
UNITED NATIONS — Virtually everyone involved agrees: Almost eight decades after it came into existence, the powerful U.N. Security Council needs to expand, to evolve, to include more voices. He called for increasing the number of both permanent and non-permanent members, including “permanent seats for those nations we’ve long supported and permanent seats for countries in Africa, Latin America and …
