The UN Security Council (UNSC) will hold a debate on Africa’s representation on August 12, Sierra Leone's Permanent Representative to the UN, Michael Imran Kanu, said during a press conference marking his country’s assumption of the Security Council presidency for August.
The meeting about “correcting historical injustices and increasing Africa’s de facto representation on the Security Council,” will focus on this issue. “Negotiations on Security Council reform are ongoing in the General Assembly. We will have the first debate on this topic in the Security Council,” Kanu said, highlighting that this discussion will be a key part of Sierra Leone’s presidency.
Currently, alongside Sierra Leone, Algeria and Mozambique are the other African countries represented on the Security Council.
The UN Security Council is composed of 15 member countries, including 5 permanent members (Russia, the UK, China, the USA, and France) and 10 non-permanent members elected for two-year terms. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has noted that most UN member states support Security Council reform. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has suggested that the expansion of the Security Council should focus on including Asian, African, and Latin American countries rather than additional Western states.
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Based on materials from TASS