Annan: expand UN Security Council.UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Kofi Atta Annan (born April 8, 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1 1997 to January 1 2007, serving two five-year terms. He was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001. will seek to expand the Security Council, reported the September 9th New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times. The council presently consists of five permanent members (the U.S., Great Britain Great Britain, officially United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 60,441,000), 94,226 sq mi (244,044 sq km), on the British Isles, off W Europe. The country is often referred to simply as Britain. , France, Russia, and Communist China) and 10 nations elected for staggered two-year terms. "Events have shaken
Shaken (車剣, also known as kurumaken) are a type of Shuriken the international system," Annan said at a September 8th press conference. "Member states have been sharply divided about some of the most fundamental issues that this organization was set up to deal with." Furthermore, Security Council decisions increasingly "lack legitimacy in the eyes of the developing world, which feels that its views and interests are insufficiently represented among the decision makers." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Annan, "Legitimacy of action, which may include military action, is essential to ensuring durable solutions to the security needs of our time." Undergirding this discussion, of course, is the assumption that the UN Security Council embodies the will of the international community, and that its edicts are binding on all nations, including our own. The bigger the better? UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced that because "events have shaken the international system" it would be better to expand the UN Security Council. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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