Next year will be a crucial and very busy year for the reform of the United Nations Security Council, in the run-up to 2015 and the UN\u2019s 70th anniversary. A year when the pace will be stepped up to modernise the UN\u2019s highest political body. The point was underscored by Foreign Minister Emma Bonino at the end of a ministerial meeting of the \u201cUniting for Consensus\u201d (EFC) countries, a group led by Italy. The UFC nations have proposed that a new category of semi-permanent members be created, without the right of veto. With a mandate of three to five years, renewable twice at most, and allocated on a regional basis. Today\u2019s UFC meeting was attended by Italy, Argentina, Canada, Colombia, South Korea, Costa Rica, Mexico, Malta, Pakistan, San Marino, Spain and Turkey.<\/P>
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Minister Bonino explained that \u201cThe group decided to accept the Mexican proposal to hold a meeting at deputy minister level in Mexico in January 2014. The meeting will examine both the more strictly political aspects and the more general context, and conduct an in-depth analysis. The UFC also agreed with a Turkish proposal to hold a ministerial-level meeting in the second half of the year, in Istanbul, with the more specific goal of launching a global campaign to inform public opinion\u201d. At the same time, \u201c2014 will be a busy year for the UFC members at the level of regional group meetings too\u201d. They will be taking part at the African Union summit and the Francophon<\/A>e countries\u2019 meeting, and in various other regional meetings. Minister Bonino underscored that \u201cThe reform of the Security Council is not just a UN question, but one of the most important political questions\u201d. <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next year will be a crucial and very busy year for the reform of the United Nations Security Council, in the run-up to 2015 and the UN\u2019s 70th anniversary. A year when the pace will be stepped up to modernise the UN\u2019s highest political body. The point was underscored by Foreign Minister Emma Bonino at […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,76],"class_list":["post-15844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-diritti-umani","tag-ministri-precedenti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}