Australia would push to reform the United Nations if given a seat on its Security Council, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Monday, as she joined Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in New York for the United Nations General Assembly.
Speaking with SBS News, Wong said Russia's use of veto powers to exempt itself from repercussions during its invasion of Ukraine was an example of where Australia would seek reform.
"We've had a longstanding position as a country of reform of the veto, and we know it's been misused previously," Wong told SBS World News chief political correspondent Anna Henderson in New York.
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