Germany's Merkel says U.N. Security Council must be reformed

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By Andreas Rinke NEW YORK (Reuters) - It is high time the United Nations Security Council is reformed to reflect the real distribution of power across the world in the 21st century, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday. "That makes reform of the Security Council necessary, reform which reflects the real power in the world better than the situation today." The appeal was in a summary of Merkel's opening remarks at a meeting with her counterparts from Brazil, India and Japan provided to reporters by the German delegation. The Security Council, the most powerful U.N. body, has 15 members, five of them permanent.




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