The proposed creation of two seats for Africa on the Security Council of the United Nations, will broaden the leadership of the global peace body and engender greater commitment among member nations.
Helluva News, the international pan-African online platform publishing in Spanish, has said.
In a statement signed by the publisher of Helluva News, Mr. Etcetera Ejikeme, such move is not only timeous, coming after 79 years since the creation of the United Nations, when 15 countries are permanent members, with five having veto power, of the global body, but further serve as acknowledgment of the important roles of the continent in global affairs.
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“The expansion of the Security Council has become very important, especially since the current members of the council were those who won the WW II, and since then, a number of countries have gained independence and are making contributions to regional and global development.
Hence, the need to expand the membership to integrate these countries, strengthen the UN and make it more relevant in the contemporary world.
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“Including two Africa countries on the Council is strategic, because Africa has been part of the global body for many decades with only rotational three places on the Security Council. But with a population of over 1.3 billion and growing economy of 54 countries, Africa can hardly be pushed aside in global affairs, hence the proposed expansion of the body to include two African countries is not only timely, but much desirable,” the release stated.
It lauded recent discussion between Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu and his UN counterpart, Joe Biden, where both leaders discussed the broader issue of permanent seats on the council, with Biden reiterating the United States’ commitment to promoting African representation.
He said Nigeria’s pursuit of a permanent seat in the UN Security Council, where Africa currently holds three rotational seats among the council’s 15 members, is well-deserved in view of the country’s huge contribution to global, regional and continental development.
He said Nigeria’s role in the liberation of many African countries from colonialism, apartheid and restoring peace in many West /African countries like Liberia, Ivory Coast and others which were suffocated by wars and also in the 56-country Commonwealth nations speak to its leadership position on the continent and outside it.
He said Nigeria parades thousands of eminently qualified potential representatives the world, having currently produced the Deputy Secretary-General of the UN, Amina Mohammed, former permanent representatives like Prof Joy Ugwu and Prof Ibrahim Gambari and former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth in the person Chief Emeka Anyanoku.
