Federal Republic of Germany
Gunter Pleuger
Germany began a two-year term as an elected member of the Security Council on January 1, 2003. It is considered to be one of the leading candidates for permanent-member status if the Security Council were to expand. Gunter Pleuger has served as Germany’s UN Ambassador since November 2002. The following is excerpted from Ambassador Pleuger’s address to the United Nations General Assembly on October 14, 2003. Seldom has the work of the Security Council engaged world public opinion as it has during the past year. The relevance of its decisions — and, let me add, of its nondecisions — was…
