{African Union (AU) member states will continue to press for reforms at the United Nations, especially at the UN Security Council (UNSC), South Africa\u2019s international relations minister said Monday. } <\/p>\n
At a media briefing held in Johannesburg, Maite Nkoana Mashabane said that, despite numerous recent changes in the world, the UNSC had largely failed to change with the times.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne thing that has remained stubbornly unchanged is how the UNSC has become undemocratic, unrepresentative and has remained exactly where it was in 1945 [when it was established],\u201d Mashabane said. <\/p>\n
The UNSC has 15 members, five of whom are permanent and all of whom have the power to veto proposed resolutions \u2013 namely, the U.S., the U.K., France, Russia and China. <\/p>\n
Many developing nations, for their part, feel it\u2019s unfair that these five countries alone \u2013 some of whom, they note, occasionally back resolutions that lead to war instead of peace \u2013 have veto rights.<\/p>\n
At Monday\u2019s press conference, Mashabane also briefed reporters on South Africa\u2019s role as rotating chair of the AU Peace and Security Council for the month of July.<\/p>\n
She said her country, along with the AU, had made an important contribution to peace and security on the continent, but said still more had to be done, citing ongoing conflicts in South Sudan, Mali and the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo achieve the AU\u2019s \u2018Agenda 2063,\u2019 we must silence the guns on the continent by 2020,\u201d Mashabane said, going on to assert that Africa would never achieve economic prosperity without first establishing both peace and security.<\/p>\n
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