The President of Finland demanded the end of the veto power in the Security Council

According to Isna, the President of Finland, Alexander Stubb, who leads the foreign policy of this Nordic country, said that at next week’s meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, where the composition of the Security Council of the World Organization is to be discussed, he will lend his voice to the requests Will add corrections.

The council, made up of five permanent members and 10 rotating member states, is the world’s peacekeeper, but geopolitical rivalries have deadlocked it over issues from Ukraine to Gaza.

In an interview, Stubb said he proposed increasing the number of permanent members from five to 10, with one more from Latin America, two from Africa and two from Asia.

He told Reuters: “No country should have the right of veto in the UN Security Council.”

The United States, one of the five veto-wielding countries along with Russia, China, France and Britain, has backed two permanent seats for Africa. Stubb said any member engaged in an illegal war, “like Russia in Ukraine,” should be removed.

Any change in the membership of the Security Council requires the approval of two-thirds of the General Assembly, including the five veto powers. “My basic message is that if countries from the Global South, from Latin America, from Africa, from Asia do not receive representation in the system, they will turn their backs on the United Nations,” he said. And we don’t want that.”

The former Finnish prime minister and MEP, who took office as president in March, called for the support of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is scheduled to address his “victory plan” at the United Nations next week. He asked the western countries to cancel the restrictions on the use of their donated weapons.

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