Ireland should publicly support the enlargement and reform of the Security Council, paralysed as it is by divisions among its veto-holding members
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks at the opening session of the second Sustainable Development Goals summit on Monday ahead of the 78th UN General Assembly. Photograph: Timothy A.
While US president Joe Biden does reportedly plan in his speech to reinforce the welcome theme that “multilateralism is back”, he will be doing so to a chamber that will not include the leaders of Russia, China, France, the UK, and India – all, bar the latter, permanent members of the UN Security Council. France’s President Emmanuel Macron has an unbreakable date hosting a royal visit by King Charles II.
“If it were up to us we would spend more time discussing Ukraine,” Olof Skoog, the EU’s ambassador to the UN, admits of the General Assembly. But, he said, the aim this year was to prevent the north-south rift from deepening and to pay attention “to the fact that for the developing world, this week the central element is about development.”
Ukraine will be debated, despite the reluctance of many in the South to take sides, with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, present for the first time since the invasion, expected to face off tomorrow at the Security Council Ukraine debate against Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.
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