Reports China Daily, China would block any move to give Japan, India, Brazil and Germany permanent seats in an enlarged UN Security Council, "This is a dangerous move and certainly China will oppose it, It will split the house and destroy the unity and also derail the whole process of discussion on big UN reforms," Mr. Wang Guangya, Chinese ambassador to the United Nations, told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York. .
Wang said China leaned toward a rival plan, proposed by Italy, Mexico and Pakistan, to enlarge the Security Council to 25 members, but without additional veto power, and some non-permanent members could be re-elected at the end of their two-year term on the Security Council
The G4 nations (Japan, India, Brazil and Germany) plan to put their motion to the General Assembly if they are certain they will get the support of two thirds of the 191 UN members so that it will be passed. China could not technically block a motion put to the General Assembly but could kill it off later. The change to the Security Council would also require changes to the UN charter. This would have to be passed by the parliaments of two thirds of the UN members, including the five permanent members.
China has strongly attacked Japan recently over Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's annual pilgrimage to the Yasukuni shrine that honors 2.5 million Japanese war dead, including 14 war criminals. (Source: China Daily, June 3, 2005).