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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.

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