G20 leaders call for reform of UN Security Council

The G20 leaders have called for a reform of the UN Security Council in the outcome declaration of the Rio de Janeiro Summit, reported from TASS.

According to the document, published on the G20 website, the participants consider it necessary to reinforce the role of the UN General Assembly’s role "as the chief deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the United Nations," including in matters of maintenance of international peace and security, through an improved and intensified interaction with the Security Council."

"We pledge to reform the Security Council through a transformative reform that aligns it with the realities and demands of the 21st century, makes it more representative, inclusive, efficient, effective, democratic and accountable, and more transparent to the whole of the UN membership," the statement says.

The G20 leaders called for an "enlarged Security Council composition that improves the representation of the underrepresented and unrepresented regions and groups, such as Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean."

In addition, the leaders called to increase the role of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

Previously, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that most UN member states acknowledge the need for a reform of the UN Security Council. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov noted that the UN Security Council should be expanded via Asian, African and Latin American countries, not Western ones.

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