Despite the Brazilian government’s defense of a change in the permanent seats of the UN Security Council, it is not likely to come to fruition anytime soon.
This is the assessment of professor at Universidade Federal Fluminense Vitelio Brustolin.
Brazil assumed the rotating presidency of the body and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has defended that countries in addition to China, the United States, France, the United Kingdom and Russia occupy permanent positions in the organization.
A CNN Radio the expert highlighted that change in this global governance, if it happens, “will take a long time.”
“I don’t think it will be carried out, as countries with veto rights will not give up power,” he explained.
Vitelio stated that for such a change to happen today, something “very serious” would need to happen, like the beginning of the Second World War, when the League of Nations was dissolved.
Even so, the professor believes that this will continue to be a project for Brazil.
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Haiti
Brazil, as president of the UN Security Council, this week approved a resolution determining the sending of international police forces to Haiti for a period of at least one year.
According to Brustolin, this was a “rare moment when Security Council countries reached an agreement.”
Even so, he believes that “the pacification force will not solve the serious socioeconomic problems that Haiti has been experiencing” since its independence in 1804.
*Produced by Isabel Campos
Source: CNN Brasil
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