Uniting for Consensus
Main members of UFC:
- Italy Italy
- Pakistan Pakistan
- Flag of South Korea South Korea
- Spain
- Mexico Mexico
- Argentina Argentina
- Turkey Turkey
- Canada Canada
- Malta Malta
Uniting for Consensus ( UFC) (also called the Coffee Club ) is a group of states that emerged in the 1990s in response to the possible expansion of the UN Security Council. Uniting for Consensus is particularly directed against the efforts of the G4 nations for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council. Key players in the movement are Argentina, Italy, Mexico and Pakistan.
In particular, Brazil, Germany, India and Japan have filed claims to a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. Japan and Germany as the second - and third-largest donor to the UN, Brazil and India as the two countries with the largest contingents to UN peacekeeping forces. Brazil is also ( according to population ) is the largest nation in Latin America and India, the world's largest democracy and to China, the state with the second largest population of the earth.
In 2005, representatives of Uniting for Consensus laid - Italy, Canada, Colombia and Pakistan, a text of the UN General Assembly a resolution before that rejects the expansion of the number of permanent seats in the Security Council. Other supporters of the text are Argentina, Costa Rica, Malta, Mexico, San Marino, Spain and Turkey.
The motives of the Member States of Uniting for Consensus are different:
- Argentina, Colombia, Mexico - against Brazil a permanent seat in the Security Council
- Italy, Spain - for a common EU seat instead of a permanent seat for Germany on the Security Council
- South Korea, China - to a permanent seat in the Security Council of Japan
- Pakistan, China - against a permanent seat in the Security Council of India
- Canada - in principle against an expansion of the Security Council, which is not based on the substantial consensus
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