President Recep Tayyip Erdogan supported UN Secretary-General Guterres’s position. He said: “The structure of the UN Security Council, which is far from fulfilling its duty of ensuring global peace and security, needs to be radically changed.”
Erdogan added: “We cannot accept the absence of a permanent member representing the African continent, which has a population of more than one billion.”
President Erdogan said in his post: “Dear Secretary-General, expressing your views honestly and loudly on reforming the UN Security Council in a fair manner and in line with the current circumstances is of great value for the world so that it can have a fair system again.” He made his assessment.
“We will continue to say ‘The world is bigger than 5’”
Erdogan pointed out that the African continent and all Africans must be given the opportunity to contribute to this just system:
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“The structure of the UN Security Council, which is far from fulfilling its duty of ensuring global peace and security, needs to be radically changed before wars surround us in our world, without more people and communities suffering and without more innocent blood being shed. This is what humanity expects from us, and in response to these expectations we will continue to say ‘The world is bigger than 5’ and act on the basis that ‘A more just world is possible.’ We will continue to support all our friends who sincerely seek to form a just international system and a UN Security Council that is appropriate to today’s circumstances and we will continue to stand by you.”
Speaking at the UN Security Council session, Guterres made remarks on Africa’s representation in the Council and stressed that there is an urgent need to reform Africa’s representation in the Council.
Noting that the Council was “designed by the victors of World War II and reflects the power structures of that period,” Guterres said the world had changed dramatically since 1945 and that the Council’s structure “has not kept pace.”
Recalling that in 1945 most of today’s African countries were under colonial rule and had no say in international affairs, Guterres said: “We cannot accept that Africa, a continent of more than a billion people, is not permanently represented in the world’s leading peace and security body.”
Guterres also shared his remarks on social media.
