{"id":55858,"date":"2025-01-06T19:18:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T15:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=55858"},"modified":"2025-01-06T19:18:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T15:48:28","slug":"russia-rules-out-german-and-japanese-security-council-bids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/55858\/russia-rules-out-german-and-japanese-security-council-bids\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia rules out German and Japanese Security Council bids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>January will welcome a new season for talks\u00a0on reforming the Security Council, but some of the initiatives are\u00a0&#8220;quite naive and impractical,&#8221;\u00a0Nebenzia said in an interview\u00a0with Russia 24 TV on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are countries that are vying for a seat on the Security Council that they will never get, we have already said this directly,&#8221;\u00a0he said, according to RT.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In particular, Germany and Japan. They will not see a permanent seat on the Security Council.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There can be no reform that is not supported by the majority of member states,&#8221;\u00a0Nebenzia added.<\/p>\n<p>London has previously stated that it wishes to see permanent seats for Germany, Japan, India, and Brazil, and similar representation for Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Security Council reform would require all five veto-holding permanent members, as well as two-thirds of the UN member states, to vote for the amendment, according to Article 108 of the organization&#8217;s charter.<\/p>\n<p>Russia, China, the US, the UK, and France\u00a0are the five permanent members of the UNSC.<\/p>\n<p>Non-permanent members are voted in on a two-year rotating basis. On Thursday, Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama, and Somalia were voted in as new non-permanent members, joining Algeria, Guyana, the Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, and Slovenia.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Russian Foreign Ministry\u00a0stated that Moscow supports the expansion of the Security Council to include countries of the Global South.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our country has consistently supported and continues to support the expansion of the UN Security Council to include developing countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America,&#8221;\u00a0Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Western states that often toe the line with Washington are already well represented in the council, she added.<\/p>\n<p>SD\/<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January will welcome a new season for talks\u00a0on reforming the Security Council, but some of the initiatives are\u00a0&#8220;quite naive and impractical,&#8221;\u00a0Nebenzia said in an interview\u00a0with Russia 24 TV on Friday. &#8220;There are countries that are vying for a seat on the Security Council that they will never get, we have already said this directly,&#8221;\u00a0he said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7103,7100,7110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents-en","category-international-en","category-politic-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}