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Reform of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) encompasses live key issues; categories of membership, the question of the veto held by the five permanent members, regional representation, the size of an enlarged Council and its working methods; and the Security Council, General Assembly relationship. Member States, regional groups and other Member State interest groupings developed different positions and proposals on how to move forward on this contested issue.
One proposed change is to admit more permanent members. The candidates usually mentioned are Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan. They comprise the group of G-4 nations, mutually supporting one another?s bids for permanent seats. The United .Kingdom, France and Russia support G-4 membership in die LLN. Security Council This sort of reform has traditionally been opposed by the Uniting for Consensus group, which is composed primarily of nations who are regional rivals and economic competitors of the G-4. The group is led by Italy and Spain, (opposing Germany), Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina (opposing Brazil), Pakistan (opposing India), and South Korea (opposing Japan), in addition to Turkey, Indonesia and others. Since 1992, Italy and other members of the group have instead proposed semi-permanent seats or the expansion of the number of temporary seats.
Most of the leading candidates for permanent membership are regularly elected onto the Security Council by their respective groups: Japan and Brazil were elected for nine two, year terms each, and Germany for three terms. India has been elected to the Council seven times in total, with the most recent successful bid being in 2010 after a gap of almost twenty years since 1991-92.
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