Japan and Germany will “never get” a permanent seat on the Security Council – RT in French

Berlin and Tokyo will not be able to obtain seats as permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, Russia’s representative to the UN, Vassili Nebenzia, assured in an interview broadcast on January 3.

Germany and Japan will “never” become permanent members of the UN Security Council, Russia’s permanent representative to the organization Vasily Nebenzia said in an interview with VGTRK journalist Valentin Bogdanov , broadcast on January 3.

This year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the United Nations. According to Vassili Nebenzia, the main attention will be focused on the reform of the Security Council. The Russian diplomat said that there were “impractical and naive options” among the proposals made as part of this reform.

“There are countries that claim a seat on the Security Council that they will never obtain, we have already said this explicitly,” he recalled. “This concerns in particular Germany and Japan,” he continued, citing “obviousness”.

According to him, there cannot be any reform that is not supported by the majority of Member States, because it would not be viable. In addition, it is necessary for all five permanent members of the Council to ratify it.

The UN must adapt to the “realities of the 21st century”

This is not the first time that Russia has expressed its categorical opposition to any German and Japanese candidacies for a permanent seat within the highest UN body.

“Germany and Japan will bring absolutely nothing new to the Security Council discussions, as they are docile executors of Washington’s will, like virtually all other Western countries,” declared at the end of August 2023 the head of Russian diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov, on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg.

An entry from Berlin and Tokyo which, according to him, “would only exacerbate injustices” and would offer even more representation to the “golden billion”, in reference to the minority of the planet’s population grouped in Western countries.

A month earlier, the spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called them “absolutely unfounded”the ambitions of Germany and Japan to become permanent members of the UN Security Council.

“Increasing the number of Western states already over-represented in the UN Security Council will not add to its democratic character and will not bring it closer to the construction of a more equitable architecture of international relations,” declared the Russian diplomat , during his weekly press briefing, reiterating Moscow’s position in favor of representatives of the African continent.

More recently, on October 24, during the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that the United Nations Security Council and other UN bodies must be reformed according to the “realities of the 21st century.” , expanding to countries in Asia, Africa and South America.