China supports reasonable reform of UN Security Council

A Chinese envoy has said that China supports reasonable and necessary reform of the United Nations Security Council to meet the needs of the time, Xinhua news agency reported.

“With a collective rise of developing countries being the defining feature, China supports reasonable and necessary reform of the Security Council to meet the needs of the time,” Zhang Jun, China’s permanent representative to the United Nations, told the 33rd plenary meeting of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly on the “Question of Equitable Representation on and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council and Other Matters related to the Security Council.”

“Priority should be given to increasing representation and say of developing countries, especially African countries,” he said.

“Most of the UN members are small and medium-sized countries. However, till now, 63 countries have never made their way to the Security Council. Some of the small and medium-sized countries get a seat at the Council every 40 to 50 years. This is regrettable and unfair,” said the ambassador.