Reform of the United Nations Security Council: The Emperor Has No Clothes
Journal: Revista de Direito Internacional
Year: 2017

Although the United Nations General Assembly included the issue of the Security Council's reform on its agenda in 1992, the negotiations on this vital issue haven't broken the impasse even after a quarter of a century. At the same time we have testified to a series of major armed conflicts worldwide. This article emphasizes the need for an urgent reform of the Security Council, i.e. unacceptability of its further postponement, because the Council has largely failed in performing its main functio