Indonesia urges UN to abolish abuse of veto right
The Jakarta Post | Sun, 09/28/2008 4:52 PM
Indonesia addressed the United Nations’ General Assembly on Saturday demanding a democratization of the Security Council through and end to abuse of veto right by members.
Representing the republic at the general assembly, Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda said veto right abuse would cripple the function of the council as a whole.
He said that past failures of the council in addressing threat to global peace were because the council had not been democratic enough.
The sovereignty of a country must be protected if the world demands an international relation that is based on democracy, he said as quoted by state news agency Antara.
“Without democracy, a world organization such as the United Nations will not be effective,” Hassan said.
To make the council more democratic, he said, it must outline provisions guiding members with veto – U.S., U.K., France, Russia and China – in exercising their special right.
Improving democracy in the council should also be carried out through making its membership not only based on geographical representation and include cultural representation, Hassan said.
“Therefore, the majority of world civilizations must be represented,” he said while adding that the world’s 1.1 billion Muslim’s must be represented in the Security Council if it sought to be truly democratic. (and)
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