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2015-10-20
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2015-10-20
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  1. “With regard to non-members, there would be merit in beginning with Ministers followed by plenipotentiary envoys and then others. We appreciate that the outcome of this debate will be adopted after all speakers have spoken. We would request that on the next occasion of an open debate an informal discussion should also be arranged with non-members of the Council on the content of the outcome. That would go a long way towards enhancing its acceptability. In conclusion, I must say that the problems afflicting the Security Council go deeper than its working methods. While a focus on working methods is useful, it can in no way be a substitute for reforming the Council in a manner that would give its decisions legitimacy and acceptability.”

    2015-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7539 (2015) · source

  2. “In April, the new Chair of the 1267 Committee organized a briefing for the wider membership of the United Nations and said that he would do so periodically. However, no meeting has since been held. His predecessor had also kept the work of the Committee cloaked in secrecy. Fourthly, Article 44 of the Charter requires that consultations be held with troop-contributing countries before the mandates of peacekeeping operations are finalized. Regrettably, that has never happened. Again, we look towards the elected members of the Council to make a new beginning. Fifthly, there should be transparency in determining the list of speakers in open debates. In our View, priority should be given to Member States rather than organizations with consultative status.”

    2015-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7539 (2015) · source

  3. “It will be for them to decide whether or not the selection of the Secretary-General will remain the sole preserve of the five permanent members. Thirdly, in the debate about transparency, we need to mention that the most non-transparent of the subsidiary bodies of the Security Council is the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) - the Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee. No information is shared on the criteria for listing or delisting individuals and organizations on whom sanctions are applied. It is our apprehension that there may in fact be no criteria at all and that any of the 15 members may be allowed to exercise a veto without assigning any reason and without the wider membership being informed of their having done so.”

    2015-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7539 (2015) · source

  4. “My delegation has pressed for the Council to recommend two or more names to the General Assembly. While the pronouncements of the General Assembly do not specifically provide for it, there is, in our view, no legal impediment for the Council to do so. An important step would also be to do away with secret straw polls using different coloured slips that allow the five permanent members to exercise the veto without even taking ownership of it. Discussions should be held in official meetings of the Council, preferably open ones but not necessarily so. The Secretary-General should issue reports, as is usual, summarizing the proceedings. Except for April, June and October, it will be elected members who will preside over the Council in every month of 2016.”

    2015-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7539 (2015) · source

  5. “I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this open debate. Given the paucity of time, I will come to the substance directly. First, we think that the openness of this debate is constricted by imposing a time limit of three minutes on non-members and no time limit for members. Secondly, one of the more important issues before the United Nations in the coming year will be the selection of the next Secretary-General. There is a great deal of debate on the prerogatives of the Security Council and the General Assembly in that matter. At the heart, however, is the question of the prerogatives of the five permanent member and the rest of the membership of the United Nations. To a large extent, that is determined by something as seemingly innocuous as the working methods of the Council.”

    2015-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7539 (2015) · source