Abstract
Reform of the UN, by Maurice Bertrand The 1993 General Assembly will very likely debate the possibility of enlarging the Security Council to include Germany and Japan. Traditional concepts of UN reform are not favourable towards Charter revision. However the fact that the United States has declared itself in favour of an expansion of the Council and that the other permanent members are not fundamentally opposed could lead to the adoption of a limited amendment creating, for example, five new permanent members. However the more or less total failure of Council initiatives in Yugoslavia, Somalia and Angola show that serious questions must be posed concerning the functions and strategies of the organi zation, the value of collective security system and peacekeeping forces. The relation between global economic integration and social disintegration and the adaptation of the structure of the United Nations system to deal with world-wide problems must also be examined. A revision of the Charter could be an opportunity to reflect upon these problems.
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