Politics impede long-advocated growth of UN Security Council


              United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a high level Security Council meeting on situation in Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
            
              United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during high level Security Council meeting on the situation in Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
            
              Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin is handed some papers by an aide during high level Security Council meeting on the situation in Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
            
              The United Nations Security Council meets on the situation in Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022 at United Nations headquarters.  (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
            Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin, left, listens as United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, speaks during a high level Security Council meeting on the situation in Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) 
              United States' Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during high level Security Council meeting on the situation in Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)