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»[T]he Secretary-General noted that France and the UK were “preparing legislation” to limit the use of the veto by the five permanent members of the Security Council in cases involving #genocide or other #egregriouscrimes.

“These questions are on the table or will be soon on the table,” he said. “We need to have all countries recognising that…a Security Council in which there are three European …

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https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/05/1167478

Strait of Hormuz de-escalation is urgent, says UN chief

As the Strait of Hormuz crisis deepens and tensions between Iran and the United States remain unresolved, oil prices rose again early Monday, prompting the UN Secretary-General to call for a peaceful resolution and warn of the widening fallout across Africa and beyond.

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… members, one Asian member and one North American member and no Latin America or African members [and] just one Asian doesn’t correspond at all to the world of today. And this creates a problem of #legitimacy. And with legitimacy comes its effectiveness in guaranteeing #peace and #security in the world.”«