Russia last year was the Netherlands still cross with a veto when our country asked for a tribunal for the plane crash in the MH17 in Ukraine. It shows how far the power of the permanent members are the United Nations, which is allowed to stand still often by opponents as a toothless talking factory.

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The minister of Foreign business believes that countries like India with over one billion inhabitants and Africa are under-represented in the main body of the UN. “But as long as the rules happen to be so, we become a place,” Koenders already announced earlier.

There is talk of a single EU seat in the long run, but with the current turmoil surrounding the Brexit may still take a long time. Also expand the board with temporary and permanent members such as Germany, Japan, Brazil and India is an option, but the P5 seems unwilling ever to give up the veto.

The Netherlands, more than 15 years ago it was sitting in the council for change of the Security Council, which dates from the years after World War II, and this has proclaimed during the campaign to many UN countries. As you score points with the Member States who are dissatisfied with how power is now divided.

One of the main reasons to vote is what you can get done on a country by that country. Which can be heard on a tour of this newspaper by the UN ambassadors. The Netherlands has a reputation for reliability. But the same can be said of Sweden, which also further recognized the Palestinian state and thus can count on a lot of extra support in the Middle East

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American UN ambassador Samantha Power plays during a typical Dutch party on the UN headquarters in New York, a game of football in the same team as Koenders.
The US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power plays during a typical Dutch party on the UN headquarters in New York, a game of football in the same team as Koenders.
Photo: Cynthia Each

With green, red and orange boxes Netherlands brings into view on what support ‘we’ can probably count. But the mood may take a few rounds, is anonymous and so is difficult to check whether a country has kept his word. And whether our country, if it can conquer a place is actually able to shake the Security Council, is also highly questionable. It has now introduced the agenda, but it had already met with much opposition from the permanent members. Moreover, the impact of a temporary member not too large.

Netherlands certainly has the support of Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, serving as chairman of the Poverty Reduction and Development Programme UN has enjoyed one of the highest functions. She wants UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the end of the year to follow and according to insiders is a good chance. Clark is passionate advocate for change. One drawback: its nomination must be approved by the same Security Council and with such plans, they can sometimes vetoed

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