The exclusion of countries from Africa, the Middle East and Latin America has long been a vital point in the credibility of the United Nations Security Council
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov takes part in a meeting with his Turkish counterpart in Moscow on August 24, 2018.
Speaking at the International Cooperation in a Troubled World conference in Vietnam, Lavrov said developing regions are inadequately represented in the decision-making body of the international organisation. "The reform of the UN Security Council is definitely overdue, as it underrepresents the developing regions of the world – Asia, Africa and Latin America,” Lavrov said.During a press conference at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa in March 2018, he raised the same issue, arguing that UNSC should include representative countries from Latin America, Asia and Africa.