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China warns on UNSC expansion

Calling it a "dangerous move", China's UN ambassador Wang Guangya said China opposed a resolution that would give Japan, India, Brazil and Germany permanent seats in an enlarged UN Security Council, according to media reports. Wang told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York that the move would "split the house and destroy the unity and also derail the whole process of discussion on big UN reforms". Brazil, Germany, India and Japan have formed a group, called G4, to lobby for permanent seats on the Security Council. Wang said China favored the alternate plan, proposed by Italy, Mexico and Pakistan, to enlarge the Security Council to 25 members, but without additional veto-weilding permanent members.

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