QUAD countries called for the inclusion of new states in the UN Security Council

US President Joe Biden and the prime ministers of India, Japan and Australia called for reform of the UN Security Council to include new permanent members from Africa, Asia and Latin America, following on from joint report after meeting in the QUAD (Quad group of nations) format.

“We will reform the UN Security Council, recognizing the urgent need to make it more representative, inclusive, transparent, effective, democratic and accountable by expanding the permanent and non-permanent categories of Council membership UN Security,” – indicated in the text of the document.

It is emphasized that the expansion of permanent seats must include the representation of new countries from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean in the reformed Security Council.

The Security Council is a permanent structure of the UN, whose main responsibility is to maintain international peace and security. The Security Council includes 15 countries: five permanent members and 10 temporary members. Permanent – Russia, USA, Great Britain, China and France. They have the right of veto. The remaining ten are elected for a two-year term. Japan, Ecuador, Switzerland, Mozambique and Malta are selected for 2023 and 2024, and Slovenia, Algeria, Sierra Leone, South Korea and Guyana are selected for 2024-2025.

The meeting in the form of QUAD is the last one for the President of the USA Joe Biden and the Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida after both announced that they would not seek re-election: the first as president of the United States, the second as chairman of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and as prime minister of Japan.

The QUAD (Quaternary Security Dialogue) format was initiated in 2007 by the Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe as an informal consultative mechanism of four countries that share the values ​​of an open and free Indo-Pacific region. In addition, if Japan and Australia are friends of the United States, India, which is not connected to Washington by friendly relations, was included in the “four” largely due to the growing role in the Indo-Pacific region and the conflict with China.