Africa deserves a permanent seat on the UN Security Council - Lavrov0By Timo ShihepoWindhoek - Russia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov has said his country supports Africa and Namibia’s calls to reform the UN Security Council (UNSC) and for the continent to occupy a permanent seat on the international security watchdog. His comments on Africa's position on the UNSC reforms become the first time since 1945 that a country, which is one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, has publicly thrown its support behind Africa to occupy a seat on the Security Council. It has five permanent and 10 non-permanent members but none of those permanent members is from Africa, although the continent provides the largest membership to the United Nations. The five permanent members with veto powers are Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States of Africa. This means that the council cannot implement any decision if one of the five permanent members objects to it.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 09, 2018 07:18 UTC