By DPA
Tehran : Iran called Monday for reforms in the UN Security Council as a necessary step toward securing justice and global peace.
“There should be a joint and harmonious effort within Asian countries to change the status quo of the UN Security Council,” President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on the opening session of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly in Tehran.
“It is just not possible that a few countries have the right to veto world issues on their own behalf and for their own interests,” he added.
Ahmadinejad had in the past demanded a permanent seat for one of the Islamic countries in the UN Security Council besides Britain, China, France, Russia and the US to strike a political equilibrium.
“Global peace cannot be achieved without justice and reforms within the UN are the first necessity to enable this justice,” he said.
Iran has hardened its stance towards the UN body after it faced two Security Council resolutions due to its persistence to follow its controversial nuclear programme.