Kazakhstan expects from UN intensification of efforts to ensure global security
ASTANA. Nov 16 (Interfax) - Kazakhstan, which will become a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, expects the organization to strengthen the work on ensuring global security.
"We expect a more active role of the UN in ensuring global security. This universal organization that has no alternative should respond adequately to diversification of threats," Kazakh Senate Chairman Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said at a meeting of the Astana Club dialogue platform on Wednesday.
The Senate press service published Tokayev's speech.
"The UN reform should be aimed at increasing its efficiency and authority," he said.
Tokayev said that it is more difficult for the current UN secretary generals to work than their predecessors of the Cold War era, because in those days the organization heads acted as mediators between two superpowers.
"Today, with the emergence of a number of regional organizations and the increase in influence of developing countries in the UN, the secretary general should display rather different qualities. New UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will, first and foremost, have to ensure the coordinated work of the Security Council, which ceased to perform the part of a 'collective intelligence' due to known differences over Syria and Ukraine," he said.
"Kazakhstan will be a non-permanent member of the Security Council in the next two years, which will allow our country to promote our agenda in this key UN body. Our country will have to vote on the main issues of the modern world, including the situation in Syria and Ukraine," he said.
