Discurso do Representante Permanente, Embaixador Sérgio França Danese, em reunião sobre a Reforma do Conselho de Segurança - 7 de março de 2024 (texto em inglês)

Distinguished Co-Chairs, colleagues,

Thank you for all your efforts to reinvigorate discussions on Security Council reform, especially by introducing this new way of interacting based on model discussions. This is clearly a step forward, allowing for more concrete and focused discussions, after 30 years of idle debate.

We are pleased to have presented the G4 Model today, which demonstrates the Group's commitment to this process. The G4 Model represents an attempt by the Group to propose parameters for comprehensive and real reform leading to a more effective and legitimate Council.

The G4 model aims at correcting the fundamental imbalance within the Council associated with the lack of representativeness in the category of permanent members.

The gross under-representation of developing countries - particularly Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean - among the permanent members critically undermines the Council’s effectiveness and legitimacy.

The two categories of Council membership must be seen as two parts of a whole. No reform will be truly transformative unless it seeks to rebalance the composition of both.

As we review the various models, we have to keep two fundamental questions in mind. The first is: who benefits from a Council whose power structure remains concentrated in a handful of countries that are not representative of the membership at large? The second is: can such a structure continue to work effectively in the years to come given the growing challenges faced by the Council and its inability to respond to them?

The answers are clear: the current power structure does not help the Council fulfill its primary responsibility; the present situation is untenable. We all know the price of continued inaction: weaker collective security; increased challenges to multilateralism; and discredit to the whole United Nations, of which the Council, for most people, is the primary face and identity. Without reform, the crisis will only worsen.

The key benefit of a truly reformed Council is also clear: a much increased ability to effectively and legitimately address the serious security challenges facing the world.

The benefit, however, will only come with real change, not cosmetic reforms, such as increasing only the number of non-permanent members. What we need is a true reform, not the semblance of  reform.

Thank you.