African Unification Front
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Links on AU Policies on the UNSC Reforms
19 Feb 2005
TWO-SEAT UN SECURITY COUNCIL PROPOSAL COULD DIVIDE AFRICA
From Moketa Katile:
Dear AUF Secretary,
Supporting your ideas about African unity, I would suggest that the proposal of giving Africa a permanent seat in the UN [Security Council] is to take into account this value of unity first, before any consideration to national interests or prestige of individual African countries. The two proposals from the UN Secretary General are not to fix Africa into a situation that it cannot be free to think for any other possibility.
Actually, the point was that the UN had to ask the African Union to send them suggestions as to how Africans would like to represent themselves in the UN and not vice versa. The fact that the two proposals first came from the UN, there is a danger that the African leaders are made to fix themselves only on the two possibilities. Hence, limiting their freedom of deciding otherwise for their own situational priorities and continental interests. In addition, if this question is not carefully examined and correctly decided upon, Africa may be divided on the issue now or then, when there is an issue of discussion in the UN.
In this perspective of unity and freedom, I would suggest that Africa stands firm in obtaining one single permanent seat and six non-permanent seats in the UN. The President or Speaker or an elected Representative of the PAP would take this one seat and the six other seats are taken by the elected representatives of the six AU regions. This will secure that ideal of unity among the African member States and distribute fairly the powers of various sections of the continent and the Diaspora.
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