Swaziland PM Calls for Full Revision of UNSC's Structure

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - "The UNSC doesn't conform to the principles of a healthy global order and management and the veto right has caused this situation. A partial reform is not fruitful but the whole structure should be reformed," Dlamini said, addressing the 16th heads-of-state summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) here in Tehran on Friday.

He referred to the NAM's responsibility with regard to the international community, and said, "To change the structure of the UN Security Council we have a hard way ahead of us because the current world order is not fair and we should have our own right of sovereignty and attain a deserving status in the world management."

In relevant remarks, President of the UN General Assembly Nasser Abdulaziz also stressed the necessity for reforming the world body's structure, and added that the NAM can play a key role to that end.

"I want to emphasize the significance of the NAM and its role in reforming the structure of the United Nations. The UN Security Council needs reforms to adapt itself to the new realities in the world," Abdulaziz said, addressing the inauguration ceremony of the NAM summit in Tehran on Thursday.

He added that the UN General Assembly has already discussed the need for restructuring the UNSC, and reached some results.

He noted that the UN General Assembly can provide a better room for international cooperation among members.

His remarks came after Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said that "the UN Security Council has an illogical, unjust and completely undemocratic structure and mechanism."

"This is a flagrant form of dictatorship, which is antiquated and obsolete and whose expiry date has passed. It is through abusing this improper mechanism that America and its accomplices have managed to disguise their bullying as noble concepts and impose it on the world," Ayatollah Khamenei stated, addressing the inauguration ceremony of the NAM summit.

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