The Council has to be expanded with both new permanent and new non permanent members.

Finland therefore supports an enlargement of the Council in the number of both permanent and non permanent members.

Concerning the Security Council, Kiribati supports the expansion of the permanent and non permanent Council memberships to better reflect the realities of our world today.

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Members of the bureau of the Committee of Permanent Representatives

The Security Council must be expanded, in both its permanent and non permanent membership, and offer an opportunity for permanent voices of the developing world to be heard.

There are in fact already too many differences between permanent and non permanent Council membership to further exacerbate that imbalance.

My country continues to call for early action to enlarge the permanent and non permanent membership of the Security Council and to improve its working methods.

It has one principal subsidiary organ, namely, the Committee of Permanent Representatives.

Summary of the meetings of the Committee of Permanent Representatives for 2003

The ratio of permanent that is, unelected to non permanent, or elected, members would increase from 1 2 to almost 1 1.

The new permanent and non permanent members joining the Council as part of this expansion should receive the same prerogatives as current permanent members.

However, and until that objective is fulfilled, Africa would insist, based on the principles of equality, justice and democracy, that all new permanent members enjoy the right of veto on an equal footing with the current permanent members.

First, Switzerland is opposed to granting the right of veto to new permanent members.

2. The non permanent members of the Security Council shall be elected for a term of two years.

The working groups of the Committee of Permanent RepresentativesCPR, 2003 2004

A majority of UN member states are in favor of creating a new Council with an expanded roster of both permanent and non permanent members.

Lastly, what credibility would such a Council have, and what principles of equality and democracy could it invoke, if the Security Council were to be a three tiered body with, as it were, three groupings permanent members with the veto, permanent members without the veto and non permanent members?

Only an increase in the number of permanent and non permanent seats can remedy the representation deficit within the Security Council and adapt it to the realities of the twenty first century.

Tuvalu supports the reforms proposed for the United Nations, including the expansion of the permanent and non permanent membership of the Security Council and the review of the Council's working methods and the rationalization of the General Assembly's work.

They also held consultations with the Permanent Representatives of Egypt, Jordan and the Syrian Arab Republic, as well as the Permanent Observers of Palestine, the League of Arab States and the Organization of the Islamic Conference.

While sponsors of resolutions did tend to look to the P 5 first, the P 5 in turn, often looked to the E 10 in informal consultations to provide feedback on their positions.

We would like to see the Unit's permanent staffing numbers raised to facilitate this.

That has been due fundamentally to conflicts among its permanent members.

It was said also that the status of the permanent five should not be diluted.

Kazakhstan has repeatedly voiced its continued support for the expansion of the Security Council in the categories of both permanent and non permanent members, on the basis of equitable geographical representation and of respect for the sovereign equality of States.

First of all, the proposal submitted by the group of four envisions drastically altering the Security Council's composition as regards the proportion of permanent to non permanent members, making that proportion almost equal.

The General Assembly would maintain the right to elect the non permanent members.

That would be in the interests of everyone, including the permanent five.

The selection of permanent staff will commence on receipt of the recommendations of the Central Review Board.

In the Security Council, eight votes constitutes an absolute majority and no distinction is made between permanent and non permanent members of the Council (Article 10, paragraph 2, of the Statute).

In that connection, draft resolution A 59 L.64, introduced yesterday by Brazil on behalf of the group of four, should enhance the legitimacy of the Council by giving it additional permanent and non permanent members.

In the Security Council, eight votes constitutes an absolute majority and no distinction is made between permanent and non permanent members of the Council (article 10, paragraph 2, of the Statute).

An election after which the record of non permanent members is not examined is accountability, but a stringent review holding new permanent members accountable is lack of accountability.

Hence, the full utilisation of ad litem judges depends on the availability of permanent judges.

We expect that in the future we will witness the same restraint being exercised by the Council's permanent members.

Ukraine has consistently supported the limitation of the use of the veto by the Security Council permanent five.

The five permanent members of the Security Council are products of agreements of the Second World War.

Hence, the full utilisation of ad litem judges depends on the availability of permanent judges.

Consequently, lasting peace and stability can elude peoples in conflict regions.

We support the expansion of the Security Council through the addition of a limited number of new members, both permanent and non permanent, so as to balance the need for flexibility in its functioning with that of making it more representative.

Preparatory meetings by the Committee of Permanent Representatives, including its subcommittees related to the ninth special session and the twenty fourth regular session of the Governing Council Global Ministerial Environment Forum (20) regular meetings of the Committee of Permanent Representatives (8)

The government run schools are reluctant towards filling up the vacant permanent posts of teachers for cutting up the costs.

New permanent members should be chosen on the basis of a set of appropriate criteria.

Thirdly, an increase in the number of permanent members would heavily impair the accountability of the Security Council.