Cuba supports UNSC´s comprehensive, profound reform

Cuban First Deputy Foreign Minister Gerardo Peñalver on Tuesday called for a UNSC reform to fulfill its primary responsibility of keeping international peace and security.

Peñalver, who also serves as Cuba´s permanent representative to the United Nations, recognized the need to ensure transparency in informal consultations and the issuance of minutes of informal consultations.

Cuba supports a comprehensive and profound reform that includes its working methods, to make it a transparent, democratic and representative body, Peñalver emphasized.

At the same time, he urged that informal closed-door meetings should be the exception and not the practice, as well as to devise more exhaustive and analytical annual reports.

“The Security Council must adhere to its mandate, without usurping the functions of other UN organs or expanding the scope of the definition of international peace and security, to the detriment of the roles and responsibilities of the General Assembly,” he said.