Russia supports Asian, African, and Latin American countries to "hold" permanent seats on the UN Security Council.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on September 24 that Moscow supports India, Brazil and one of the African countries to join the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) as permanent members.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov supports granting permanent membership of the UNSC to countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. (Source: AFP)

According to Mr. Lavrov, developing countries do not have enough representatives in the Security Council of the largest multilateral organization on the planet.

“We need to respond to and respect the aspirations of Africa,” Mr. Lavrov stressed.

Mr. Lavrov said that Russia supports granting permanent membership of the Security Council to Asian, African, and Latin American countries instead of Germany and Japan.

According to the Russian Foreign Minister, the addition of members from NATO, the European Union (EU) or Western allies like Japan to the Security Council "will only strengthen and deepen injustice".

Mr. Lavrov also pointed out that “there is no international issue on which Berlin and Tokyo speak differently from the ‘big guys’ across the ocean.”

Previously, at the World Peace Forum in Beijing in 2022, former Russian Ambassador to China Andrey Denisov also spoke out against Germany and Japan being permanent members of the UNSC and declared that he "did not see any value in admitting them".

"Russia calls for expanding the UN Security Council based on the principle of consensus. This process requires a proportionate increase from African, Asian and Latin American countries, so that the Security Council becomes a more democratic organization, meeting the aspirations of the global people," Mr. Denisov emphasized.

In 2005, Germany, Japan, India and Brazil, or the G4 group, proposed expanding the Security Council. However, after much discussion, this proposal has not been implemented due to opposition from some permanent members of the Council.

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