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Annan: expand UN Security Council.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)

The New American

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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan will seek to expand the Security Council, reported the September 9th New York Times. The council presently consists of five permanent members (the U.S., Great Britain, France, Russia, and Communist China) and 10 nations elected for staggered two-year terms.

"Events have shaken the international system," Annan said at a September 8th press conference. "Member states have been sharply divided about some of the most fundamental issues that this organization was set up to deal with." Furthermore, Security Council decisions increasingly "lack legitimacy in the eyes of the developing world, which feels that its views ...

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