Legitimacy of G4
The inclusion of the members of the G4 (Germany, Japan, Brazil and India) was to be discussed in committee which brought about many arguments. These four nationalities are of much importance in world relations. They are relatively active in the discussion about controversies globally. Would the UNSC benefit from the addition of the members of the G4 to the list of permanent nationalities with veto power?
Increasing the number of permanent seats would lead to more discussion and debate. This would of course improve the quality of decision making, but would also form delays in decision making or problem solving. The G4 are quite prominent members of the UN. They have contributed to many peacekeeping missions and are also major economies of the world. Keeping these points in mind, the delegate of Switzerland stated that “the inclusion of the G4 into the list of permanent members of the UNSC with veto power has more advantages thandisadvantages”. This is because this will ensure that more opinions are added to decision making and will therefore improve the quality of the solutions.
India, Japan, Germany and Brazil have declared themselves “legitimate” candidates for permanent
membership of the UNSC as they pushed for its reform. Delays are of course caused due to the
addition of more members to the list of permanent members of the UNSC, but the UN General Assembly has adopted a negotiating text by consensus for the long pending Security Council reforms. There are not many disadvantages of the addition of the G4 to the list of members with veto power. Even during committee proceeding, not many disadvantages came up about this matter.
But now a controversy has taken place. Members of the G4 have offered to initially forgo veto
powers as permanent members in a reformed security council as a bargaining chip to get the
reform process moving. So, the G4, temporarily has given up its attempts to get into the list of
permanent members of the UNSC. Reform of the United Nations Security Council encompasses five key issues: categories of
membership, the question of the veto held by the five permanent members, regional
representation, the size of an enlarged council and its working methods, and the Security Council General Assembly relationship. The issue of veto is important, but we should not allow it to have veto over the process of council reform itself.
Decrying the “out of date” structure of the UN Security Council, G4 nations have said the problem of “imbalance of influence” in the Council cannot be corrected if only non-permanent members are added to the powerful world body as part of its reform expanding only the non-permanent category will only widen the difference between permanent and non permanent members even more.
This gap can be narrowed down by the simple method of adding the G4 members to the already existing list of the P5 members. Logically, adding these economically strong nationalities to the list the permanent members of the UNSC.
The inclusion of the members of the G4 (Germany, Japan, Brazil and India) was to be discussed in committee which brought about many arguments. These four nationalities are of much importance in world relations. They are relatively active in the discussion about controversies globally. Would the UNSC benefit from the addition of the members of the G4 to the list of permanent nationalities with veto power?
Increasing the number of permanent seats would lead to more discussion and debate. This would of course improve the quality of decision making, but would also form delays in decision making or problem solving. The G4 are quite prominent members of the UN. They have contributed to many peacekeeping missions and are also major economies of the world. Keeping these points in mind, the delegate of Switzerland stated that “the inclusion of the G4 into the list of permanent members of the UNSC with veto power has more advantages thandisadvantages”. This is because this will ensure that more opinions are added to decision making and will therefore improve the quality of the solutions.
India, Japan, Germany and Brazil have declared themselves “legitimate” candidates for permanent
membership of the UNSC as they pushed for its reform. Delays are of course caused due to the
addition of more members to the list of permanent members of the UNSC, but the UN General Assembly has adopted a negotiating text by consensus for the long pending Security Council reforms. There are not many disadvantages of the addition of the G4 to the list of members with veto power. Even during committee proceeding, not many disadvantages came up about this matter.
But now a controversy has taken place. Members of the G4 have offered to initially forgo veto
powers as permanent members in a reformed security council as a bargaining chip to get the
reform process moving. So, the G4, temporarily has given up its attempts to get into the list of
permanent members of the UNSC. Reform of the United Nations Security Council encompasses five key issues: categories of
membership, the question of the veto held by the five permanent members, regional
representation, the size of an enlarged council and its working methods, and the Security Council General Assembly relationship. The issue of veto is important, but we should not allow it to have veto over the process of council reform itself.
Decrying the “out of date” structure of the UN Security Council, G4 nations have said the problem of “imbalance of influence” in the Council cannot be corrected if only non-permanent members are added to the powerful world body as part of its reform expanding only the non-permanent category will only widen the difference between permanent and non permanent members even more.
This gap can be narrowed down by the simple method of adding the G4 members to the already existing list of the P5 members. Logically, adding these economically strong nationalities to the list the permanent members of the UNSC.
The more the merrier.
(Al Jazeera - UNSC -Qatar - IPC )
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