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Report of the GA Working Group on the Security Council for 1998 - Annex XXIII

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Annex XXIII

 

Joint position paper of the States members of the Group of Eastern European States eligible for non-permanent membership in the Security Council: the matter of allocation of one additional non-permanent seat for this Group in the enlarged membership of the Security Council, submitted by Hungary, as Chairman of the Group of Eastern European States for the month of May 1998

1. The States members of the Group of Eastern European States, eligible for non-permanent membership of the Security Council, attach great importance to the issue of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and other matters related to the Security Council.

2. It is the strong common position of these Member States that any increase in the non-permanent membership of the Security Council should ensure an enhanced representation of the Group of Eastern European States by the allocation to the said Group of one additional non-permanent seat in the enlarged Security Council.

3. In support of their view, these Member States wish to emphasize the fact that, since 1991, the Group of Eastern European States has more than doubled its membership and that its present 21 States members constitute more than 10 per cent of the total United Nations membership.

 

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