Japan Told Not to Submit UNSC Resolution for now, but after end of this month...

lexico · 10 Jun 2005

Japan's UNSC bid dealt blow by U.S.--By KANAKO TAKAHARA: Staff writer

Japan will probably postpone submitting a resolution to expand the U.N. Security Council in light of an objection aired last week by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Foreign Ministry sources said Tuesday.
In a telephone conversation Friday with Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura, Rice urged Tokyo to refrain from submitting the resolution this month, the sources said.

"If the resolution is submitted in haste, we would have to oppose to it," a senior ministry official quoted Rice as telling Machimura. "There would be confusion if it is submitted too early."

Although the U.S. has publicly voiced support for Japan's candidacy to become a permanent Security Council member, it is widely believed to be reluctant to expand the membership because it could make consensus-building harder.

The so-called Group of Four UNSC hopefuls -- Japan, Brazil, Germany and India -- have worked toward jointly submitting the resolution later this month to the U.N. General Assembly. They hope a decision on Security Council reform will be made during a U.N. summit in September.

The resolution advocates increasing the current number of UNSC permanent members from five to 11 and adding four more nonpermanent members. The four countries are seeking to obtain the expanded permanent seats.

It must be noted that the US is not saying no to Japan, but only recommending prudent behavior, timeliness, and coordination with UN reformation movements sought by the US.

Japan will try to win wider support for the Group of Four resolution before submitting it to the General Assembly, the ministry sources said.

Machimura hinted to reporters Tuesday morning that the submission of the resolution, initially planned this month, would likely be delayed until July.

"The African Union summit will be held in early July and African nations have asked us to wait until then to submit the resolution," Machimura said, adding that the Caribbean nations summit takes place July 1....

Japan will try to persuade the three other Group of Four members to postpone submitting the resolution, but it is unclear whether they will agree, especially since Germany wants to submit the resolution this month as planned, the sources said.

In a related move, Machimura on Monday canceled a trip to Nigeria to attend a meeting of the African Union member states, after the African Union withdrew its invitation to the Group of Four, apparently because of the union's ties with a group of U.N. states opposing the Group of Four's proposal.

Instead, Machimura headed Tuesday to Brunei, Vietnam and Cambodia to lobby for Japan's Security Council bid.

The senior Foreign Ministry official said Machimura will try to make sure the Southeast Asian nations continue to support Japan's Security Council candidacy, given that China appears to be lobbying those countries not to back Tokyo's bid.

The Japan Times: June 8, 2005
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There's still time to make up for the war atrocities by reflecting those in the textbooks, and by cleaning up Yasukuni shrine's class-A criminals being 'Showa Martyrs' issue. But there's not enough time to fulfill any amount of satisfactory compensations for the numerous victims. If all fails there is nothing else but propaganda and buy outs which might stall an untainted General Assembly vote. What will it be, and what is China's position regarding the UN reformation and the General Assembly vote to expand UNSC membership ?

Wang · 10 Jun 2005

That news article doesn't say anything about the revised version of the draft resolution which has a 15-year freeze on veto powers for new permanent members of the U.N. G-4 eyes 15-year freeze on veto rights for new UNSC members

lexico · 10 Jun 2005

I've noticed that, Wang, and the articles were both published June 8. So the question is, 'when neither are mentioning the other, how are they related ?'
Is the G-4 resolution coordinated among the four countries or are they separate ?
Is the US also telling the other 3 countries, Germany, Brazil, and India to postpone their submitting resolutions to the UN ?
Will the same standards apply to all four contries from the stand point of the US ? If so, what are those standards ?

edit: So I gather that the 15-year freeze article was in response to the US-Japan telephone converstation ? That would be one possible interpretation, but why did the Yahoo Asia News/Kyodo News article not mention the telephone conversation and UN reformation planned by the US ?

edit2: My article deals with the converstaion from Friday, last week, while yours is current. Sorry for the outdated post; it does explains why the revision came about. It's unfortunate that information regarding the conversation was not published immediately, but only after reaching a concensus among the G-4. Late news reporting ?

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