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Article: Schroeder: Germany still eyeing UN Security Council seat
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 5, 2005
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Schroeder: Germany still eyeing UN Security Council seat
BERLIN, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder
said Friday that Germany has not given up its hopes for a permanent
seat on the UN Security Council.
To a meeting of senior members of his Social Democrat Party in the
eastern city of Kassel, Schroeder said that the rejection of some
Security Council permanent members against the call by the Group of
Four (G4) nations for permanent seats "was to be regretted."
Their objections were "unjustified," he claimed.
The G4, referring to Germany, Brazil, India and Japan, has
proposed expanding the Security Council from 15 to 25 seats, with six
new members as permanent ones.
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