By Spy Uganda
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni urged the UN Security Council on Thursday to enact reforms that would give Africa permanent representation there.
Opening a meeting in the capital Kampala attended by officials representing 10 African Union member states, Museveni said the 1.3 billion people on the African continent deserve representation on the Security Council.
The UN Security Council should have been & must be reformed. This is not a favour by anybody but a right of all peoples that inhabit the planet earth. We demand our right of having permanent seats, not the seasonal ones allotted to us by the present unfair system, on the Council. pic.twitter.com/fpmmLm8JXH
— Yoweri K Museveni (@KagutaMuseveni) January 20, 2022
“The UN Security Council should have been and must be reformed,” he said. “This is not a favor by anybody but a right of all peoples that inhabit the planet Earth.”
“We demand our right for permanent representation on the UN Security Council. Africans and billions of Asians cannot be kept out of the UN Security Council by five member states that monopolize it now.”
We must be in that Security Council to ensure that it is not used negatively against Africa and that it is, instead, used positively for Africa and the rest of the World. https://t.co/nspMoEy9OA pic.twitter.com/PorQkVrI2m
— Yoweri K Museveni (@KagutaMuseveni) January 20, 2022
He referred to the current system as being unfair, saying Africa must have a permanent seat on the Security Council to ensure that it is not used negatively against Africa.
The five permanent members of the UN Security Council are the US, China, Russia, France and Britain. The council’s 10 other seats rotate among non-permanent members who serve two-year terms.
