Kazakhstan has repeatedly voiced its continued support for an expansion of the Security Council in both the permanent and the non permanent categories of membership.

The enlargement of the Council should be carried out in both categories of membership, permanent and non permanent.

The United Kingdom also supports permanent membership for Africa.

Secondly, expansion of the Security Council should be carried out in both categories of membership, permanent and non permanent.

What makes permanent membership unique is not so much the permanency of the seat as the powers that go along with it.

More balance can be achieved in the composition of the Council only by expanding both permanent and non permanent membership.

The group of four countries are seeking permanent membership for themselves, not for their regions.

It is one of the G4 nations seeking permanent membership in the Security Council.

Fulfilling those criteria would add legitimacy for continued permanent status.

Some participants urged ending permanent membership and restricting or ending the veto.

That can be accomplished only by expanding the permanent and non permanent categories, with the inclusion of developing countries in both categories.

Finally, Africa must enjoy equitable representation, including in the permanent membership.

Neither the concept of permanent membership nor the veto has been a useful tool for ensuring international peace and security.

It would seem only appropriate that enlargement in the permanent category also include countries of the global South.

Africa's quest for membership on an expanded Security Council in both the permanent and non permanent categories has been expressed in the various contributions of African States to past debates, including the consultations initiated by you, Sir.

From the outset, France has maintained that, in order to achieve that aim, the Security Council must be enlarged in both categories of membership permanent and non permanent.

Such reform must, at a minimum, ensure that the Council's membership is more representative and remedy the continuing imbalance in the representation of Africa in the permanent membership.

With respect to the permanent category, we are convinced that India and Japan, by virtue of their contributions to the United Nations and their capacity to contribute effectively to the work of the Council, deserve to be members with the same level of privileges and responsibilities as the current permanent members now possess.

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My delegation has long advocated the expansion of the permanent membership of the Security Council, and the accession of India to the status of permanent member.

The purpose of establishing a more balanced composition of the Security Council can be realized only through democratic expansion of both the permanent and non permanent member categories.

But a diplomatic solution guided by the Security Council s permanent members is the only credible path to peace.

First and foremost, the concept of permanent membership is contrary to the fundamental reality that the world is in constant flux.

In the past, on more than one occasion, we have expressed our support for the accession to permanent membership of Germany, Japan, Brazil and India.

Permanent membership must be extended to other Powers that can make a major contribution to international peace and security.

There are times when the leverage of powerful States including permanent members of the Council can be crucial.

We have indicated many times that the nature of the permanent membership is an inequity that must be corrected in the future.

Regrettably, it failed to reach agreement on the enlargement of the Council, especially on an increase in the permanent member category.

The talks have continued until today in an expanded format that includes Germany and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (the P5 1) without any tangible results.

Germany and South Africa were elected as non permanent members at the same time, while Brazil and Nigeria are halfway through their two year terms.

Among them is the fact that the Council should be enlarged and made more representative, in both the permanent and non permanent categories of membership, so as to reflect the realities of today's world, which has changed radically during the past 60 years.

Denmark shares that view and has expressed support for expansion expansion achieved by increasing the number of permanent members and non permanent seats and by including developing and developed countries as permanent members.

We agree that such an increase should apply to both categories of membership permanent and non permanent taking special care to ensure adequate geographical representation and the inclusion of both developed and developing countries.

It proposes a distribution of the seats in the permanent and non permanent categories in a manner that should ensure greater representation of the developing countries, whilst taking account of some key players with significant contributions to make to the advancement of the goals and objectives of the United Nations.

It is for that reason and on this position we will not compromise that we believe that the right of the veto is a key and intrinsic factor of permanent membership.

Permanent membership is a privilege. But, first and foremost, it confers a great responsibility to contribute significantly and systematically to international peace and security.

Persistent violations of safeguards agreements should lead to a suspension of the rights and privileges of membership as permitted under the Statute.

It was in that context that, at the last general debate of the General Assembly, my President expressed her concern over the lack of progress on the question of equitable regional representation and the increase in the membership of the Security Council in both the permanent and non permanent categories.

Twelve years ago the Portuguese Government declared itself to be in favour of an enlargement of the Security Council in both categories of membership, permanent and non permanent, so that it would better reflect the world of today through a rebalancing of its representativeness.

With respect to the addition of new permanent members, our strong preference would be for a mechanism which provides for permanent membership to be reviewable .

We agree with the view that the membership of the Council should be expanded in both the permanent and the non permanent categories. The draft resolution provides a democratic basis for expanding the membership in which, we believe, the Group of Arab States should be represented at all times.

And, in recent years, China has worked behind the scenes to prevent permanent Security Council membership from conveying great power status on India.

How else could one explain that Britain and France, but not Germany, Japan, or India, are permanent, veto wielding members?

Permanent membership is not a privilege rather, it is a duty and responsibility for nations that are willing and able to contribute effectively to international peace and security.

They would always have a fresh, up to date mandate from the membership, instead having to rely on a hazy memory of the conditions under which they attained permanent status.