Lavrov speaks about ideas to introduce semi-permanent members at UN SC

MOSCOW, September 11. /TASS/. Certain countries have been promoting the ideas of introducing semi-permanent members at the UN Security Council with the right to elected immediately, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with TASS First Deputy Director General Mikhail Gusman for his TV film "United Nations - 70 years" from the "Formula of Power" series. "Many sensible members of the world community, and we as well, stand on these positions and promote the idea that a compromise [on the reform of the UN SC] should be sought," Lavrov said. "If there are such opposing stances, let’s find something between. Some countries have ideas suggesting that the third category of members should be intoduced and they are to be neither permanent nor non-permanent, but semi-permanent." Lavrov said that non-permanent members are elected for a two-year period, without the right to be immediately re-elected after that. "Proposals were coming that a new category of member countries should be established and that such counties should enjoy the right to be elected for a longer period - eight years - and some even speak about ten years, with the right of immediate re-election, which actually means that due to well-done work with partners, a candidate may be presented at the UN Security Council on a permanent basis," he said. "I do not say that it is the decision which must be promoted now but it is an indication of what people think about bridging uncompromising positions," the Russian foreign minister said. Read more