Secretary-general: ‘UN Security Council reflects the world of 1945’

The UN Security Council reflects the world of 1945, but the world has changed, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in an interview with Report.

“Three of the five permanent members of the Security Council are European, with different positions, but European - France, the UK and the Russian Federation. The world is today a much bigger world. We need a Security Council that reflects the world of today and is not paralyzed by geopolitical decisions,” according to Guterres.

“And that is the most important reform that the international community requires, as it requires the same kind of reform in the international financial architecture and other aspects of global governance that were defined after the Second World War, when Azerbaijan, at the time, was part of the Soviet Union. And today, Azerbaijan is there, asserting itself in the international arena. So, it's fair that we have a world that reflects the Azerbaijanis of this world that were not there when global governance was established.

Read the full interview here.