UN General Assembly
1995

community as a whole. A Security Council more representative of today’s world would strengthen the legitimacy of its actions and facilitate the implementation of its decisions. My Government is in favour of a balanced increase that would involve the admission to the Council of new permanent and non-permanent members from both the North and the South. In particular we would like permanent-member status to be acknowledged for economic Powers whose positive role in international affairs has long been recognized. The improved representativeness of the Security Council cannot be achieved only by remaking its membership: it also requires greater transparency in its decision-making processes. Dialogue with other Members of the Organization, especially those countries that contribute troops for peace-keeping operations, must be enhanced. Finally, the time has come to delete from the Charter references to “enemy States” which have not existed for a long time now. Each and every one of us is aware of the seriousness of the financial crisis that the Organization faces. It results not only from sums disbursed, which are relatively speaking