The African parliamentary Alliance for UN Reforms is to petition the United Nations to seek for representation on the UN Security Council.
The Executive Chairperson of the African Parliamentary Alliance for UN Reforms, Onyango Kakooba revealed this on Tuesday August 16, while speaking to journalists in Kampala. Kakooba said that they are plotting to hand over a petition of 10 million signatures from Africans demanding to be with 2 representatives on the UN Security Council.
He says that as the executive committee on the African Parliamentary Alliance for UN Reforms, they intend to soon start moving in several African countries soliciting for these signatures noting that if the UN fails to reorganize their demand for Africa being with members on the Security Council, their members will take a hard decision and denounce the UN Council membership.
Kakooba says that Africans have been neglected to be on this Security Council yet they have 54 countries in the United Nations.
He argues that they want representation on the Security Council since Africans are the most affected in relation to insecurity, adding that Africa having two members on the Security Council will help the Africans to influence the decisions taken by the Security Council since Africa is mostly hit by war and violation of human rights.
