Annex XIX
Conference room paper submitted by the Bureau of the Open-ended Working Group: sets of outstanding issues related to the expansion of the Security Council, dated 25 June 1998*
I. Total size of the enlarged Security Council:
Option 1: 20;
Option 2: 21;
Option 3: 23;
Option 4: 24;
Option 5: 25;
Option 6: 26;
Option 7: at least 261.
II. Categories of the membership to be increased:
Option 1: Increase of permanent and non-permanent membership;
Option 2: Increase only of non-permanent membership.
III. Issues related to the increase of permanent and non-permanent membership:
1. Ratio between new permanent and non-permanent seats.
2. Number and distribution of new permanent seats.
3. Rotational arrangements for new permanent seats:
Option 1: Application of rotational arrangements to all or some of new permanent seats;2
Option 2: Rejection of the idea of rotational arrangements for new permanent seats.
4. Procedure for the designation of new permanent seats.
5. Extension of the veto to the new permanent membership:
Option 1: No extension of the veto to new permanent membership;
Option 2: Full extension of the new permanent membership;
Option 3: Other arrangement.
6. Number and distribution of new non-permanent seats.3
7. Election of new non-permanent members:
Option 1: Maintaining the established practice for the election of new non-permanent members;
Option 2: Maintaining the established practice for the election of new non-permanent members, with the establishment of rotational arrangements for new non-permanent seats;
Number and selection of States to be subject to rotational arrangements.
IV. Issues related to the increase only of non-permanent membership:
1. Number and distribution of new non-permanent seats.
2. Election of new non-permanent members:
Option 1: Maintaining the established practice for the election of new non-permanent members;
Option 2: Maintaining the established practice for the election of new non-permanent members, with the establishment of rotational arrangements for new non-permanent seats;
Number and selection of States to be subject to rotational arrangements.
Notes
1 See the annex to document A/AC.247/1998/CRP.2, letter from Bahrain dated 27 January 1998, containing the position of the Group of Arab States on expansion and composition of the Security Council; annex XI to the report of the Working Group to the General Assembly at its fifty-first session (Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-first Session, Supplement No. 47 (A/51/47); and document A/AC.247/1997/CRP.10, submitted by Egypt, on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, informing the Working Group about the outcome of the meeting of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Movement held at New Delhi regarding the reform of the Security Council.
2 See document A/AC.247/1998/CRP.16, containing the decision of the Assembly of African Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity on the procedure for rotation of the two permanent seats claimed by Africa in the expanded Security Council. See also the annex to document A/AC.247/1998/CRP.2, letter from Bahrain dated 27 January 1998, containing the position of the Group of Arab States on expansion and composition of the Security Council.
3 See document A/AC.247/1998/CRP.15, containing the joint position paper of the States members of the Group of Eastern European States eligible for non-permanent membership in the Security Council.
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