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Secondly, Africa must be given two additional non permanent seats.

The African Union has called for two permanent seats for Africa with full rights.

My delegation also reiterates the call by the African Union for Africa to be accorded two additional non permanent seats in the Council.

It calls for two permanent seats, with the prerogatives and privileges of permanent membership, and five non permanent seats for Africa.

At the invitation of the President, Mr. Assaker (Lebanon) and Mr. Mekdad (Syrian Arab Republic) took seats at the Council table.

Specifically, in line with the model A proposal of the High level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, it would provide the African continent with two permanent seats.

Of the remaining 68 elected members of the Meshrano Jirga, six are women, two of whom hold permanent seats, while the other four hold temporary ones.

The OIC could also obtain one or more additional, elected seats from the non Arab subregions of Africa and Asia.

Finally, it resolves to grant Africa two permanent seats and five non permanent seats in the Security Council, as well as to increase the Council's overall membership from 15 to 26.

It allows for a significant increase in African representation, including through the allocation of two permanent seats to the African continent, which Portugal has been arguing in favour of.

The whole world has turned upside down, and yet France and Britain, for example, retain permanent seats on the UN Security Council.

It claims for itself two permanent seats with the same prerogatives and privileges as current permanent members, including the right of veto, as well as five non permanent seats.

As was stated by the representative of Malawi on behalf of the African Member States, Nigeria reiterates its conviction that Africa deserves a minimum of two permanent seats on an expanded Council.

In addition, the National Democratic Party of Liberia obtained two seats, while the National Reformation Party and the All Liberian Coalition Party each won a single seat.

We collectively maintain that the African continent, which has been underrepresented for so long, deserves two permanent seats with veto power and five non permanent seats on the Council.

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Nor will we compromise on our demand for two additional non permanent seats we believe that it would only be fair for Africa to have a total of five non permanent seats on the Security Council.

The world's poorest countries will ask themselves why they should vote for Germany and Japan to have permanent seats on the Security Council if they can't keep their promises.

Africa should hold not less than two permanent seats, with all the prerogatives and privileges of permanent membership, including the right of veto, as well as five non permanent seats.

Africa seeks two permanent seats and five non permanent seats in an expanded Security Council, as well as fundamental changes to the working methods of the Council, in order to make it more transparent and accountable.

At the invitation of the Chairman and in accordance with the requests for hearing granted at previous meetings of the Committee, Mr. Birmingham (Member of the Legislative Council of the Falkland Islands) and Mr. Luxton (Member of the Legislative Council of the Falkland Islands) took places at the Committee table.

(c) Grant Africa two permanent and five non permanent seats in the Security Council and increase its membership from fifteen to twenty six with the eleven additional seats to be distributed as follows

Five provincial seats reserved for women remain vacant owing to the lack of women candidates in three provinces, while women won two provincial council seats in Kabul, in addition to those seats reserved for women.

Intensive policy advocacy in Afghanistan, supported by UNDP, resulted in a presidential decree allocating two seats per province for women to participate in the Loya Jirga during the drafting of the new constitution.

We fully concur that the time has indeed come for one of history's greatest injustices to be corrected and for Africa to be accorded two permanent seats in the Council, with all the rights and privileges that go with membership in that category, including the right to the veto.

In the initial election, on 10 June 2004, Congress fixed the number of government members at 11 and decided that AE should get five seats in the collegial Cabinet, RPCR 3, FLNKS 2 and UC 1.

The African Union draft resolution (A 59 L.67) was submitted to this General Assembly in July and seeks the following not less than two permanent seats for Africa, with all the prerogatives and privileges of permanent membership, including the right of veto five non permanent seats for Africa and improved Council working methods.

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