By George Jones
Last Updated: 1:42am BSTÂ 08/08/2007
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The United Kingdom should lose its independent voice at the United Nations and hand over its seat on the Security Council to the EU, according to the new Foreign Office Minister, Lord Malloch-Brown. |
Last October, when Lord Malloch-Brown was the UN's deputy secretary general, he told EU diplomats in Brussels that the EU was heading towards one single seat within the UN institutions. "I think it will go in stages. We are going to see a growing spread of it institution by institution," he was reported as saying.
Lord Malloch-Brown said he hoped it would happen "as quickly as possible. I'm a huge fan of it."
William Hague, the Conservative foreign affairs spokesman, said it was "alarming" that Mr Brown had chosen to put in charge of UN reform "the man who thinks we should give up our UN Security Council seat to the EU." Downing Street said there was "no question of Britain giving up its seat".
The Foreign Office said Lord Malloch-Brown had made the comments before he was made a Government minister
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