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January will welcome a new season for talks\u00a0on reforming the Security Council, but some of the initiatives are\u00a0“quite naive and impractical,”\u00a0Nebenzia said in an interview\u00a0with Russia 24 TV on Friday.<\/p>\n
“There are countries that are vying for a seat on the Security Council that they will never get, we have already said this directly,”\u00a0he said, according to RT.<\/p>\n
“In particular, Germany and Japan. They will not see a permanent seat on the Security Council.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
“There can be no reform that is not supported by the majority of member states,”\u00a0Nebenzia added.<\/p>\n
London has previously stated that it wishes to see permanent seats for Germany, Japan, India, and Brazil, and similar representation for Africa.<\/p>\n
Security Council reform would require all five veto-holding permanent members, as well as two-thirds of the UN member states, to vote for the amendment, according to Article 108 of the organization’s charter.<\/p>\n
Russia, China, the US, the UK, and France\u00a0are the five permanent members of the UNSC.<\/p>\n
Non-permanent members are voted in on a two-year rotating basis. On Thursday, Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama, and Somalia were voted in as new non-permanent members, joining Algeria, Guyana, the Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, and Slovenia.<\/p>\n
Last year, the Russian Foreign Ministry\u00a0stated that Moscow supports the expansion of the Security Council to include countries of the Global South.<\/p>\n
“Our country has consistently supported and continues to support the expansion of the UN Security Council to include developing countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America,”\u00a0Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, Western states that often toe the line with Washington are already well represented in the council, she added.<\/p>\n
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