The Chinese diplomacy chief is visiting for a week on the continent. After Ethiopia, he must go to Gabon, Angola, Benin and Egypt.
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The Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister Qin Gang said on Wednesday, January 11, that Africa should be better represented at the UN Security Council and in other international organizations, after having met the President of the Commission of the African Union (AU).
“We should strengthen the representation and voice of developing countries, especially those of Africa, within the United Nations Security Council and other international organizations,” said the Minister during the inauguration of the New headquarters of the African Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC Africa), financed by Beijing, Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia and also AU seat.
qin gang called for “a fairer and equitable global governance system”, believing that “Africa should be a crossroads for international cooperation, and not the field of competition between major powers”.
“The African continent is excluded from international governance, and that is unfair,” abounded the president of the AU committee, Moussa Mahamat Faki. “For several decades now, we have been fighting for a reform of the international system as a whole and particularly in the name of the United Nations Security Council. Africa refuses to be considered as an arena of the struggles of influences.”
permanent seat for the African Union
The UN Security Council is formed by fifteen members, including five permanent veto: the United States, Russia, China, France and Great Britain. Ten other countries occupy the other seats for two-year periods.
The Chinese minister travels for a week on the continent, which must lead him, after Ethiopia, in Gabon, Angola, Benin and Egypt. He also met on Tuesday, in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
He was expressed on the eve of the arrival of his French and German counterparts in the Ethiopian capital as part of a mission of support for the peace agreement signed on November 2, 2022 to end a war two -year fratricide.
In September, American president Joe Biden said that his country would support the attribution of permanent seats to Africa and Latin America, in addition to his support prior to the inclusion of Japan and the India.
“MO12345LEMONDE Africa” Every Saturday, find a weekly week and debates, by writing the “world Africa” to register m. Biden also supported a permanent AU AU role within the G20 and plans a visit to sub -Saharan Africa, the first of an American president since 2015.