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Every year, the UN General Assembly elects five incoming out of ten UNSC non-permanent members that serve for two years.
Corzo praised the role of other non-permanent members of the UNSC such as Japan and Germany as well as India, stressing the importance of expanding the UNSC membership.
“However, I think it is impossible to remove veto powers despite the mounting criticism and several proposals. It is not easy for those five countries to lose such a privilege,” Corzo stated, adding that different interests of the five UNSC permanent members have often complicated the situation.
For example, Russia has several times vetoed the UNSC resolution addressing the decade-long Syria conflict to protect its closest ally, Bashar al-Assad.
Indonesia has been chosen as the UNSC non-permanent member four times. In the UNGA 2019, Indonesia and Germany passed a UNSC resolution that extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) for a year until 2020.
