Japan welcomes UNSC move to increase permanent members
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Top Japanese officials on Wednesday welcomed the United Nations&#39; proposal to increase the number of UN Security Council permanent members, as the move is favorable to Tokyo&#39;s ambition to become a member country.
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Seeking more influence over global decisions, Brazil, Germany, India and Japan joined forces to lobby for a permanent U.N. Security Council seat and pledged to work together to reform the United Nations.
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ROME: Pakistan and Italy have agreed to block the expansion of permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. President Pervez Musharraf and Italian President Carlo Ciampi announced this in a joint
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Argentina, Denmark, Greece, Japan and Tanzania are the next non-permanent Security Council members.
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Four nations have announced their intention to support each others&#39; candidacies as permanent members of the United Nations Security Council in an attempt to make the UN&#39;s executive body more representative and legitimate.
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The United Nations elected five new members of the UN Security Council for two-year terms starting on January 1 -- Argentina, Denmark, Greece, Japan and Tanzania.
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OXFORD, England  - French President Jacques Chirac said Friday the United Nations Security Council does not represent today's world and should be expanded to include Germany, Japan and developing countries such as Brazil and India as permanent members.
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Japan has welcomed President Bush&#39;s decision to redeploy US troops overseas, saying the changes will better suit the global security environment.
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Japan has become one of five new members elected to the United Nations Security Council, even as it campaigns for a permanent seat on the powerful body.
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A United Nations panel has called for the UN&#39;s main decision-making body, the security council, to be expanded from 15 to 24 members, giving broader representation to developing countries.
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Japan's business confidence is improving and firms are set to boost investment in the coming months.
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Calling for urgent reform of the United Nations, President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged to help Brazil, Germany, India, Japan and a major African country join the UN Security Council as permanent members.
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Japan and the US yesterday agreed to boost cooperation in their missile defense programs -- an important first step in carrying out new defense guidelines that ease Tokyo&#39;s strict postwar pacifism.
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Four countries that want permanent membership on an expanded U.N. Security Council &#151; Brazil, Germany, India and Japan &#151; vowed on Tuesday to support each other's bids and pledged to reform the United Nations.
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UNITED NATIONS - Japan, Brazil, Germany and India formed a lobbying group to help one another get permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council and head off proposals that might work against them.
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Russia said on Saturday India should become a fully-fledged permanent member of the United Nations Security Council if the U.N.'s top decision-making body is enlarged to reflect post-Cold War realities.
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By Mark Turner at the United Nations and Hugh Williamson in,Berlin. Germany and Japan yesterday indicated their willingness to sacrifice veto rights in return for winning permanent seats on the United Nations