Mahbubani: Security Council is 'losing its legitimacy'
Kishore Mahbubani was a United Nations ambassador for 10 years.
The former diplomat is now a provocative thinker on globalisation and sees a world increasingly united by economics, ideas and aspirations.
Mr Mahbubani told HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur the UN Security Council is "rapidly losing its legitimacy in the eyes of the majority of the world's population" and it is time to reform its structure.
He argued for a creation of a Security Council which does not have "yesterday's great powers... but tomorrow's great powers."
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20 Mar 2013
- From the section World News TV