Razali Ismail
Tan Sri Razali Ismail ( born April 14, 1939 in Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia Today ) is a Malaysian diplomat and UN politicians. The term Tan Sri is a title awarded by the Malaysian government.
Ismail joined the diplomatic service in 1962 in Malaysia a. After various positions abroad, including London and Paris, as well as the Foreign Ministry, he was Malaysian ambassador in different countries, from 1978 to 1982 in Poland, Hungary, East Germany and Czechoslovakia, from 1982 to 1985 in India, and from 1988 to 1998 in Cuba, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago.
From 1988 to 1998, he represented Malaysia as permanent representative to the United Nations. 1989/90 he sat for his country in the Security Council, which he headed as president for one year. In 1992, he headed the Malaysian delegation at the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. On 17 September 1996 the General Assembly of the United Nations Ismail chose their president, he led until the end of his term of office on 16 September 1997 52 regular sessions, the 10 emergency meeting and the 19th special session of the Assembly.
From 4 April 2000 to early January 2006 was Razali Ismail Special Envoy of the United Nations for Myanmar, the former Burma. He mediated between the Burmese military junta and the opposition to the Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. After initial successes, which led to the dismissal of Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest in May 2002, disabled the governance of Myanmar after the attack on Suu Kyi's motorcade on 30 May 2003 his work more and more. Finally, they refused him after his last visit to Rangoon in early March 2004, the additional entry. Since it 's transmitted by the United Nations task not for 22 months was able to perceive, he opted not to renew his contract when he expired on 3 January 2006.
In addition to these activities Ismail taught as a visiting professor of International Studies at Michigan State University, USA (1993-1995), and the universities Kebangsaan and Putra, Malaysia.
Razali Ismail is married and has three children.
Razali Plan
The term " Razali Plan" is an elaborated by Razali bill to reform the UN Security Council. Main features of the design are:
- Extension to nine other members (5 permanent and 4 non-permanent )
- Permanent seats to be filled following: one seat each in Africa, Asia and Latin America / Caribbean, two more seats to be occupied by industrial countries
- Non- permanent seats to be distributed among regions (Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America / Caribbean)
- New permanent members will not have a veto, the elderly should make use of the veto only in cases of Chapter VII of the UN Charter
- There is a quorum of 15 votes
- The Charter changes should be checked by a conference after 10 years