Cuba Calls for Enlargement of UN Security Council

Cuba recently stated that they feel the UN Security Council will be neither effective nor representative while entire regions are excluded from the decision making process and the category of permanent members.

Cuba has demanded an enlargement of the UN Security Council in order to better take the interests of the third world into consideration.

"Cuba considers that the number of permanent members on the UN Security Council must increase to add two new developing countries from Asia, two from Africa, and two from Latin America and the Caribbean," said Cuban Ambassador Rodolfo Benítez Verson, Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN.

"It is impossible to examine the issue of regional representation without considering the close link with the rest of the aspects of the Security Council reform," Verson said.

"Likewise, we favour an increase in the number of non-permanent members to achieve an adequate representation of the developing countries," he continued.