FG renews call for permanent seat at UN security council

By Nkiruka Nnorom with bureau reports

The national authorities yesterday renewed its bid for a imperishable spot astatine the United Nation’s Security Council arsenic a wider process of organization reforms, citing the country’s increasing colonisation and its presumption arsenic a stabilising unit successful determination information and a accordant spouse successful planetary peacekeeping efforts.

This is adjacent arsenic South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, called for extremity to commercialized weaponisation, saying that commercialized argumentation volatility was destabilising the planetary economy.

Speaking during the wide statement of the 80th league of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) successful New York City, USA, President Bola Tinubu, said Nigeria’s colonisation has grown to much than 200 million, portion the nation’s subject had participated successful 51 retired of 60 United Nations peacekeeping operations since her independency successful 1960.

Represented by Vice-President, Kashim Shettima, Tinubu besides called for urgent enactment to beforehand sovereign indebtedness alleviation and entree to commercialized and financing for emerging economies, proposing a caller and binding mechanics to negociate sovereign debt.

He emphasized the request for countries hosting minerals to payment reasonably from those resources done investment, partnership, section processing, and jobs, portion advocating for a dedicated inaugural to bring unneurotic researchers, backstage sector, governments, and communities to adjacent the integer disagreement and beforehand entree to technology.

“United Nations volition retrieve its relevance lone erstwhile it reflects the satellite arsenic it is, not arsenic it was. Nigeria’s travel tells this communicative with clarity. When the UN was founded, we were a colony of 20 cardinal people, absent from the tables wherever decisions astir our destiny were taken; today, we are a sovereign federation of implicit 236 million, projected to beryllium the 3rd astir populous state successful the world, with 1 of the youngest and astir dynamic populations connected earth.

“A stabilising unit successful determination information and a accordant spouse successful planetary peacekeeping, our lawsuit for imperishable spot astatine the Security Council is simply a request for fairness, for representation, and for betterment that restores credibility to the precise instauration upon which the anticipation of multilateralism rests.

“This is wherefore Nigeria stands firmly down the UN80 Initiative of the Secretary-General, and the solution adopted by this Assembly connected 18 July 2025, a bold measurement to betterment the wider United Nations strategy for greater relevance,

efficiency, and effectiveness successful the look of unprecedented fiscal strain. “We enactment the thrust to rationalise structures and extremity the duplication of responsibilities and programmes, truthful that this instauration whitethorn talk with 1 dependable and enactment with greater coherence,” helium said.

President Tinubu reaffirmed Nigeria’s committedness to peace, development, unity, multilateralism, and quality rights, emphasizing the value of corporate enactment and practice successful resolving planetary challenges.

Speaking further, helium condemned the ongoing Israeli battle successful Gaza and advocated for a two-state solution done designation of the authorities of Palestine, arsenic a pathway to resoluteness the on-going warfare successful Gaza.

President Tinubu said: “We are despised by terrorists due to the fact that we take tolerance implicit tyranny. Their ambition is to disagreement america and to poison our humanity with a toxic rhetoric of hate. Our quality is the region betwixt shadiness and light, betwixt despair and hope, betwixt the ruin of anarchy and the committedness of order. We bash not lone combat wars, we provender and structure the guiltless victims of war. This is wherefore we are not indifferent to the devastations of our neighbours, adjacent and distant.

“This is wherefore we talk of the unit and aggression visited upon guiltless civilians successful Gaza, the amerciable onslaught connected Qatar, and the tensions that scar the wider region. It is not lone due to the fact that of the civilization of impunity that makes specified acts intolerable, but due to the fact that our ain bitter acquisition has taught america that specified unit ne'er ends wherever it begins.

“We bash not judge that the sanctity of quality beingness should beryllium trapped successful the corridors of endless debate. That is wherefore we say, without stuttering and without doubt, that a two-state solution remains the astir dignified way to lasting bid for the radical of Palestine. For excessively long, this assemblage has borne the value of motivation conflict.

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