President Bola Tinubu has asked for cooperation multilateralism and permanent seats for Nigeria and Africa on the United Nations Security Council.
News About Nigeria reports that Vice President Kashim Shettima, who represented Tinubu, spoke at the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday
“Some permanent members of the United Nations Security Council have offered encouraging, if tentative, indications of support on the issue of reform of the council. We welcome the change in tone and urge an acceleration in momentum to the process,” he said.
“The security council should be expanded, in the permanent and non-permanent member categories, to reflect the diversity and plurality of the world. We fully support the efforts of Secretary-General Guterres in this regard.
“Africa must be accorded the respect that it deserves in the security council. Our continent deserves a place in the permanent members category of the security council, with the same rights and responsibilities as other permanent members.”
The president also appealed for debt forgiveness for Nigeria and a reform of the global financial architecture.
“We reiterate the call by countries, especially of the global South, for reform of the international financial architecture and promotion of a rules-based, non-discriminatory, open, fair, inclusive, equitable, and transparent multilateral trading system,” the president said.
“Similarly, we must ensure that any reform of the international financial system includes comprehensive debt relief measures, to enable sustainable financing for development.
“Countries of the global South cannot make meaningful economic progress without special concessions and a review of their current debt burden.”
