| Libya's president has criticized the permanent members of the United Nations' Security Council during his first ever address to the UN General Assembly. according to agencies.In a one-and-a-half hour speech in New York on Wednesday, Muammar Gaddafi said the veto-wielding nations of the Security Council were ignoring the views of the full 192 members of the General Assembly and the principles of the UN charter."The preamble [of the charter] says all nations are equal whether they are small or big," Gaddafi said in his address.But he accused the permanent members of the council of undermining other states."The veto [held by the five permanent UN members] is against the charter, we do not accept it and we do not acknowledge it," Gaddafi said. . "The Security Council did not provide us with security but with terror and sanctions," he said. He said the council, comprising the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China, had failed to prevent or intervene in 65 wars that have taken place since the United Nations was established in 1948.He called for $7.77 trillion in compensation to be paid to Africa from its past colonial masters, and at one point questioned the assassination of US President John F Kennedy."The assassination of Kennedy in 1963 - we want to know, who killed him? Lee Harvey? Why was Harvey killed?" he said, referring to the man who was arrested in connection with Kennedy's murder and shot dead while being transferred between jails. | The five permanent members should lose their veto, or the UN should expand the council with additional member states, Gaddafi also said. | | Council, it should be called the 'terror council'," he said, adding that the permanent members treat smaller countries as "second class [and] despised" nations. "Now, brothers, there is no respect for the United Nations, no regard for the General Assembly," he said. We feel that Gaddafi has spoken a few relevant points though he was a very unpredictable person and there is behavioral problem in him.The UN requires reform to make it more functional and save it from tyranny of VETO. Individual states should not have veto power, we can think of collective veto power , if it is considered necessary, for instance if one third of the members of the security council votes against a resolution it should be considered veto .There are many other proposals on the table in this regard which should be debated and considered by the UN. | . .
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