Zambia’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), Lazarous Kapambwe, says there is need to make the UN Security Council more effective and more transparent.
Mr Kapambwe said when world leaders called for the reform of the Security Council, it was not meant to create a body that would only address one or two of the inadequacies that they identified.
He said this in a statement released to ZANIS in Lusaka today by First Secretary for press to the UN Moses Walubita.
Mr. Kapambwe added that a more representative Security Council which is also more efficient was good but not enough as long as that body is not at the same time more transparent, more efficient, more legitimate and better able to implement its decisions.
He said a modest increase not beyond a total membership of 19 would not compromise the Security Council’s efficiency.
Mr. Kapambwe said the presence of African and other smaller states in the permanent category would add and bring a vital perspective that can also add to the capacities of the Council. He said making the Security Council more effective is one of the issues that world leaders need to address.
He said the presence of African and other smaller countries in the permanent category of the Council may not bring much power as they do not have the military might of the big countries.
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I doubt if the presence of African countries can ever change the policy of the UN Security Council as Mr. Kampambwe suggests. I think it is rather the presence of the millitant Islamic nations that the Security Council is concerned about.