Tuyên bố báo chí của nhóm G4 (Brazil, Đức, Ấn Độ và Nhật Bản) ngày 11 tháng 2 năm 2011

Joint Press Statement of Ministerial Meeting of the G4 countries (Brazil, Germany, India and Japan)

February 11, 2011

1. The Minister of External Affairs of India, the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany, the Minister of External Relations of Brazil and the State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Japan met in New York on 11 February 2011, for the second time in the last six months, to exchange views on Security Council reform.

2. The Ministers agreed that as democracies with shared political values including respect for the rule of law, respect for human rights and a commitment to multilateralism, the G4 countries hold a number of common positions on the major contemporary challenges to international peace and security. They noted with satisfaction the important contributions being made by their countries to the working of the Security Council and to the maintenance of international peace and security. They reaffirmed their willingness and capacity to take on major responsibilities in this regard. They stated that the international system would benefit from the expansion of the UN Security Council, which would ensure that the Council is truly reflective of current geopolitical realities and make it stronger, more representative, legitimate, effective and efficient.

3. In this context, the G4 countries reiterated their commitments as aspiring new permanent members of the UN Security Council, as well as their support for each other's candidatures. The G4 countries also reaffirmed their view of the importance of Africa to be represented in the permanent membership of an enlarged Council. They also reconfirmed the need for additional non-permanent members and improvement in the Council’s working methods.

4. The Ministers expressed gratitude for the efforts made by the President of the General Assembly, H.E. Mr. Joseph Deiss and Ambassador Zahir Tanin, the Chair of the intergovernmental negotiations, for their facilitating role in the negotiations among the Member States. The Ministers stressed that the ongoing intergovernmental negotiations made it clear that the overwhelming majority of the Member States support expansion in both the permanent and non-permanent categories of the Security Council membership, as well as increased representation of developing countries in both.

5. The Ministers recognized that there is widespread support for a Member-States driven initiative to take the process of the much-needed reform of the Security Council towards a concrete outcome in the current session of the UN General Assembly.

6. The Ministers, therefore, agreed to press ahead, with all necessary steps to achieve at the earliest an expansion in both the permanent and non-permanent membership categories of the Security Council. Towards this goal, the G4 countries reaffirmed their readiness to reach out to other countries and to work in close cooperation with them in a spirit of flexibility.

7. Finally, the Ministers agreed to meet again within the coming quarter to review progress on the decisions taken.

S. M. Krishna
Minister of External Affairs of India

Guido Westerwelle
Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany

Antonio de Aguiar Patriota
Minister of External Relations of Brazil

Takeaki Matsumoto
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Japan

New York
February 11, 2011 

 

Source: http://meaindia.nic.in/mystart.php?id=530517168

Nhóm các nước G4 hối thúc cải cách Hội đồng bảo an

G4 nations to press for urgent UNSC reforms

 

PTI
United Nations, February 12, 2011

Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna. File Photo

India, Brazil, Germany and Japan — the G4 nations — on Saturday said they would press for “urgent” reforms of the U.N. Security Council this year.

External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and the Foreign Ministers of three other nations met at the U.N. headquarters here to step up their campaign even though there is no broad acceptance within the 192 U.N. members on how to reform the world body's supreme peace and security body.

“Pressure is mounting here at the United Nations for the U.N. membership to finally face the challenge of addressing Security Council reform in a realistic manner, adjusting it to the current geopolitical realities,” said Brazil's Foreign Minister Antonio de Aguiar Patriota after the meeting.

“The Ministers agreed to press ahead with all necessary steps to achieve at the earliest an expansion in both the permanent and non-permanent membership categories of the Security Council,” a joint statement said.

“Towards this goal, the G4 countries reaffirmed their readiness to reach out to other countries and to work in close cooperation with them in a spirit of flexibility,” it added.

Mr. Krishna's two-day visit is his first trip to the U.N. since India became a non-permanent member of the Security Council in 2011 after a gap of 19 years. Reform of the Council is on top of his agenda.

Speaking to journalists after the second meeting in the past six months, Mr. Krishna said the four countries decided to “press ahead for Security Council reform on an urgent basis.”

“The Security Council needs to face the realities of the 21st century,” Germany's Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said.

The G4 Ministers also underlined the need for Africa to have a permanent seat on the Council.

The Security Council reform process has been going on for almost two decades. But several questions are yet to be resolved: how many new seats should be created, who gets these seats and when should the veto power kick in.

Negotiations have shifted from the so-called “Open Ended Working Group” of the 1990s to text based negotiations, which are headed by Ambassador Zahir Tanin of Afghanistan.

The latest text is a five-page document, which lists the various options of expanding the Council.

Except Japan, the other G4 countries are now on the Council serving as non-permanent members and they are hoping to set the stage for becoming permanent members before their terms expire.

The four Ministers also met General Assembly President Joseph Deiss to discuss Security Council reform. Mr. Deiss has spoken out strongly in favour of reform.

Krishna's faux pas

Meanwhile, Mr. Krishna was caught in a public gaffe when he inadvertently read out the speech of Portuguese Minister Luis Amado but rectified the error after an Indian official drew his attention.

Speaking at the United Nations Security Council at a debate on security and development on Friday, Mr. Krishna read out the wrong speech for about three minutes before being corrected by India's envoy to the U.N. Hardeep Singh Puri.

Mr. Krishna read Mr. Amado's speech, without realising his mistake, apparently because the first portion related to general issues pertaining to the U.N., development and security. But a few lines did go out of place.

Source: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article1447745.ece