WITHOUT CONSENSUS SUPPORT, ENLARGEMENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL WOULD BE 'FLAWED FROM THE START', ASSEMBLY TOLD

5 December 1997

Press Release
GA/9374/

WITHOUT CONSENSUS SUPPORT, ENLARGEMENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL WOULD BE 'FLAWED FROM THE START', ASSEMBLY TOLD

19971205 Speakers Stress Issues of Transparency, Working Methods, Equitable Representation, as Discussion of Council Reform Continues

CORRECTION

On page 6 of Press Release GA/9374 of 5 December, on the General Assembly's consideration of Security Council reform, the fourth sentence of the first paragraph of the statement by Libya should read as follows:

"Libya supported the proposals of the Non-Aligned Movement and hoped that the will of the majority would prevail."

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