Russia rules out German and Japanese Security Council bids

Any reform would require a consensus among the permanent members, Russia’s UN envoy, Vassily Nebenzia, has said

Germany and Japan will never become permanent members of the UN Security Council, Russia’s envoy to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, has said.

January will welcome in a new season for talks on reforming the Security Council, but some of the initiatives are “quite naive and impractical,” Nebenzia said in an interview with Russia 24 TV on Friday.