He would expand the Council by adding five permanent members - Germany, Japan and three from the developing world.
Enlargement is long overdue.
He says Washington has taken no position and would defer its decision as to whether newcomers should be given this powerful weapon. In our view, they should not. In cold-war years the veto, or its threat, repeatedly paralyzed the Security Council. That body s growing reliance on consensual decisions since 1990 is a notable and hopeful development, even though China did derail participation in peacekeeping in Haiti and the dispatch of military observers to Guatemala. Whatever the inequities of the current system, doubling the number of potential nay-sayers would be a remedy worse than the affliction it is designed to cure.