{"id":6191,"date":"2016-05-25T05:38:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T09:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=6191"},"modified":"2019-10-12T11:12:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T15:12:52","slug":"calls-for-un-security-council-reform-at-istanbul-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=6191","title":{"rendered":"Calls for UN Security council reform at Istanbul summit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DISARMAMENT & SECURITY .<\/p>\n

An article by Handan Kazanci & Ilgin Karlidag, Anadolou Agency, Turkey<\/a><\/p>\n

World leaders in Istanbul have called for an urgent change to the United Nations Security Council, limiting the power of veto by its five permanent members, including Russia.<\/p>\n

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\nAhmed Ben Hali with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon
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Arab League Assistant Secretary-General Ahmed Ben Hali told the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul on Tuesday: “Reform of the UN Security Council is urgently needed. \u201cThe use of veto should be rationalized. There should be a departure from the approach of management of crisis \u2026 to depart from double standards in dealing with issues of peace and security and to prosecute those committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.”<\/p>\n

The Arab League consists of 22 member states, including Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

Ben Hali\u2019s comments echoed those of summit host and Turkey\u2019s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who on Monday said the UN Security Council must “urgently” change in order to fulfill its functions.<\/p>\n

Each of the permanent members \u2013 Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom and the United States \u2013 have the power of veto, allowing them to block draft council resolutions \u2013 even when these have broad international support.<\/p>\n

Erdogan called for the veto by the council\u2019s five permanent members to be limited, a move which Russia \u2013 a permanent member of the UN Security Council \u2013 is against.<\/p>\n

In 2012, Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down. The move sparked criticism worldwide and prevented substantial UN-backed action with regards to the Syrian civil war.<\/p>\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin declined his invitation to the Istanbul summit, the humanitarian news agency IRIN reported on May 10. In his place, Putin sent a delegation, whose head, Russian Deputy Emergencies Minister Sergey Voronov, said on Tuesday that his country opposes any limitations to the power of veto by any permanent member of the Security Council.<\/p>\n

According to James Nixey, the head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at London-based Chatham House, Putin\u2019s non-attendance at the summit is not surprising. \u201cVladimir Putin would be rather embarrassed at a world humanitarian summit considering the criticism his regime takes for its aggressive behavior abroad and its human rights record at home,\u201d told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday. \u201cRussia views its veto as pure power, and there is zero chance that it would endorse any move to give up wielding such power, which it has used so effectively in the past,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Criticized internationally for its role in backing the Assad regime, Russia said in a statement obtained by IRIN that it “refuses to be bound by the results of a process it says failed to include its views”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Proposals for Reform of the United Nations: Are they sufficiently radical?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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