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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has urged Persian Gulf nations to work toward the creation of a joint security mechanism, noting that Moscow was concerned about the tense standoff in the region.He goes on to say that part of reason the G20 emerged is because the G7 failed to deal with issues of any significance and underrepresentation:
"We have been suggesting to the Gulf countries to think about collective security mechanisms, something like OSCE for Europe", Lavrov told the international Raisina Dialogue conference in New Delhi on Wednesday.
"It´s not just 'let´s not fight with each other'", Lavrov said, adding that the initiative is about transparency and cooperation, and suggesting that more international players should be involved.
Developing nations, absent from the UN Security Council, enjoy greater representation in the G20 - and its emergence shows that the elitist Group of Seven is steadily losing significance, the Russian Foreign Minister suggested.See also: America escalates its "democratic" oil war in the Near East
The Group of 20 - which includes the G7 countries as well as the five-member bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) - proved workable, especially when developing countries "have grievances regarding the lack of progress in reforming the Security Council," Sergey Lavrov told an audience during his trip to New Delhi.
"The creation of G20 was recognition that G7 can no longer decide any issue of any significance."
"I would say the deficiency - the main, and probably the only, deficiency of the Security Council - is underrepresentation of the developing countries," Lavrov acknowledged.
Russia has always backed the accession of two emerging economic giants - India and Brazil - to the council, he said.
"Our position is that the purpose of the reform is to make sure that the developing countries have a better treatment in the central organ of the United Nations."
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