Canada Issues Call For UN To Hold Security Council Elections

India, Germany, Japan and Brazil are seeking permanent memberships and, in an attempt to gain support from smaller countries, are offering to create five new non-permanent memberships. This would bring to 26 the number of members to the security council, whose permanent members currently are the U.S., Britain, China, France and Russia. But Rock said "permanence is the polar opposite of accountability." Instead, he proposed creating 20 regionally based memberships and allowing countries in each region - Africa, for instance - to regularly elect their representatives. That system would force countries to earn the respect of their peers and would allow more flexibility in global governance, Rock said. "In a changing world . . . it is surely unwise to lock into place arrangements that reflect today's circumstances, when tomorrow may confront us with very different needs," he said. http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/07/26/pf-1148643.html

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