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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