安保理作業方法に関する安保理公開討論における石兼公博大使ステートメント
令和4年6月28日
Mr. President,
I would like to express my deep appreciation to the Albanian presidency for organizing this open debate on the working methods of the Council, to which Japan has consistently been deeply committed.
I am so pleased that for the first time in three years, non-Council members are able to participate in this debate in person.
Indeed, so many things had occurred during this period with regard to the way the Council works. The physical constraints due to the pandemic was one important factor but growing divisions among the members was another. The latter led to the adoption of GA resolution on the “Veto Initiative,” which we welcome.
Japan highly commends the flexibility and ingenuity of the Council in developing new tools and practices under unprecedented circumstances of COVID-19. They can serve as a good basis for improving the working methods, especially in order to be better prepared for any contingency in the future.
Mr. President,
Japan has been honored to once again serve as a non-permanent member of the Security Council beginning in 2023. Having served as IWG chair three times and contributed to the adoption of Note 507 and its revisions, we recognize the need to update the Note 507 in light of the President Notes issued during the IWG chairmanship of Kuwait and the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. We also recognize the initiatives utilizing new technologies such as visual aid, which are similarly significant developments in the Council’s working methods.
Japan intends to actively engage in efforts to further improve the working methods under the current Albanian IWG Chair in close cooperation with other Council members, P5 and E10 alike, while heeding the views of the wider UN membership in good faith.
I look forward to contributing to the deepening of the discussions on the important theme of working methods as a member of the Security Council from January next year.
I thank you.