Reforming UN Security Council


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There is a larger consensus among the member states that UN Security Council must expand to become more inclusive and its reform has been on the agenda for well over a decade now. However, they haven’t been able to agree as to how big the council should become and whether other nations should have veto powers. As a result, the Security Council continues to bank on the global power structure of 1945, when the Second World War winners the likes of US, UK, France, Russia and China acquired their privileged status. Political analysts and critics have long argued that the...