U.S. President Joe Biden has again called for an increase in the number of permanent and non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
In his speech on Tuesday to the U.N. General Assembly, Biden said the U.S. has"undertaken serious consultation with many member states. And we'll continue to do our part to push more reform efforts forward, look for points of common ground, and make progress in the year ahead."
Patrick told VOA Mandarin in a phone interview that the deepening of frictions between the U.S. and China and between the U.S. and Russia have increasingly intruded on the ability of the council to address other matters such as climate change. Other groups of U.N. member states are advocating for particular types of reforms. The G4 group of Brazil, Germany, India and Japan have been campaigning for permanent council seats for years.
Anjali Dayal, associate professor of international politics at Fordham University, told VOA Mandarin,"Everybody agrees that the Security Council needs to be reformed, but nobody agrees on how it should be reformed."
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