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Africa Should Have Two Permanent Seats On UN Security Council, Equatorial Guinea

Africa Should Have Two Permanent Seats On UN Security Council, Equatorial Guinea

From World Bulletin

Africa deserves two permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council, which would give the continent the right to veto draft resolutions, Equatorial Guinea’s foreign minister, Agapito Mba Mokuy, has said.

“The time has come that together we tell the international community that Africa has the right to have two permanent seats in the Security Council with a veto right,” Mokuy said at the opening of the ministerial meeting of an Africa-Turkey summit currently taking place in Equatorial Guinea.

“Of course, some nations want Africa to believe that this is not possible,” he added. “We tell them no.”

“We believe that, yes, we can – and soon will – exercise our rights at the United Nations, including the Security Council,” Mokuy asserted.

 

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