Uniting for Consensus

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Main members of UfC :

Principal members of Uniting for Consensus

Uniting for Consensus (UFC) (also Coffee Club called) is a group of states that in response to the possible expansion of the 1990s UN - Security was created. Uniting for Consensus is particularly directed against the efforts of the G4 states to have a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. The main actors in the movement are Argentina , Italy , Mexico and Pakistan .

Brazil, Germany, India and Japan in particular have made claims for permanent seats on the UN Security Council. Japan and Germany as the second and third largest donors to the UN, Brazil and India as the two countries with the largest contingents of UN peacekeeping forces . Brazil is also the largest nation (by population) in Latin America and India the world's largest democracy and, after China, the country with the second largest population in the world.

In 2005, representatives of Uniting for Consensus - Italy, Canada , Colombia and Pakistan submitted a text to the General Assembly of the United Nations, a motion rejecting the increase in the number of permanent seats on the Security Council. Other supporters of the text are Argentina, Costa Rica , Malta , Mexico, San Marino , Spain and Turkey .

The motives of the member states of Uniting for Consensus are different:

  • Argentina, Colombia, Mexico - against a permanent seat for Brazil on the Security Council
  • Italy, Spain - for a common seat of the European Union instead of a permanent seat for Germany in the Security Council
  • South Korea , China - against a permanent seat for Japan on the Security Council
  • Pakistan, China - versus a permanent seat for India on the Security Council
  • Canada - on principle against an expansion of the Security Council that is not based on broad consensus

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  1. ↑ http://www.centerforunreform.org/node/386
  2. ^ " Players and Proposals in the Security Council Debate, " Global Policy Forum, July 3, 2005.
  3. ↑ http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2005/ga10371.doc.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2005/ga10371.doc.htm

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