Tokyo To Push For African Seat On UN Security Council: PM Kishida
Date
8/28/2022 6:17:18 PM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
Japan will use its place on the United Nations Security Council
to push for an African seat on the top world body, Prime Minister
Fumio Kishida said on Sunday, Trend reports citing Al
Arabiya .
“Japan reiterates its determination to redress the historical
injustice against Africa of not being represented through a
permanent membership on the Security Council,” Kishida told the
Tokyo International conference on African Development in Tunis.
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“In order for the UN to work effectively for peace and stability
there is an urgent need to strengthen the UN as a whole through
Security Council reform,” he said.
The UN faces“a moment of truth,” he added.
Japan was among five countries elected in June to hold a
non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for 2023 and
2024.
Kishida, speaking over live video from Tokyo after testing
positive for COVID-19 days earlier, reiterated a pledge announced
on Saturday to invest some $30 billion in Africa over the next
three years.
He also announced that Japan would appoint a special envoy to
the Horn of Africa, where a long drought has prompted the UN's
weather agency to warn this week of an“unprecedented humanitarian
catastrophe.”
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