Annex XVIII
Conference room paper submitted by the Bureau of the Open-ended Working Group: sets of outstanding issues related to the expansion of the Security Council, dated 1 May 1998
I. Total size of the enlarged Security Council:
Option 1: 20;
Option 2: 21;
Option 3: 23;
Option 4: 24;
Option 5: 25;
Option 6: 26.
II. Categories of the membership to be increased:
Option 1: Increase of permanent and non-permanent membership;
Option 2: Increase only of non-permanent membership.
III. Issues related to the increase of permanent and non-permanent membership:
1. Ratio between new permanent and non-permanent seats.
2. Number and distribution of new permanent seats.
3. Rotational arrangements for new permanent seats:
Option 1: Application of rotational arrangements to all or some of new permanent seats;
Option 2: Rejection of the idea of rotational arrangements for new permanent seats.
4. Procedure for the designation of new permanent seats.
5. Extension of the veto to the new permanent membership:
Option 1: No extension of the veto to the new permanent membership;
Option 2: Full extension of the veto to the new permanent membership;
Option 3: Other arrangement.
6. Number and distribution of new non-permanent seats.
7. Election of new non-permanent members:
Option 1: Maintaining the established practice for the election of new non-permanent members;
Option 2: Maintaining the established practice for the election of new non-permanent members, with the establishment of rotational arrangements for new non-permanent seats;
Number and selection of States to be subject for rotational arrangements.
IV. Issues related to the increase only of non-permanent membership:
1. Number and distribution of new non-permanent seats.
2. Election of new non-permanent members:
Option 1: Maintaining the established practice for the election of new non-permanent members;
Option 2: Maintaining the established practice for the election of new non-permanent members, with the establishment of rotational arrangements for new non-permanent seats;
Number and selection of States to be subject for rotational arrangements.