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My Profile Top News Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. Subscribe You are here: Home > News > International > Article Home Business & Finance News U.S. Politics International Technology Entertainment Sports Lifestyle Oddly Enough Environment Health Science Special Coverage Video Pictures Your View The Great Debate Blogs Weather Reader Feedback Do More With Reuters RSS Widgets Mobile Podcasts Newsletters Your View Make Reuters My Homepage Partner Services CareerBuilder Affiliate Network Professional Products Support (Customer Zone) Reuters Media Financial Products About Thomson Reuters Security Council reform talks to start in February Fri Jan 30, 2009 7:08pm EST Email | Print | Share | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+] By Patrick Worsnip UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Negotiations among the world's nations on the much disputed issue of expanding the U.N. Security Council from its long-standing membership of 15 states are set to start on February 19, officials said on Friday. Most countries agree that the body, whose composition largely reflects the balance of power shortly after World War Two, needs to be enlarged to reflect present-day realities, but there is little agreement on how. The council, the powerhouse of the United Nations with the ability to impose sanctions and dispatch peacekeeping forces, has five permanent veto-holding members -- the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China. It also has 10 members elected on a regional basis who serve two-year terms before being replaced by others. They have no veto. That number was set in 1965, after standing at six since the post-war foundation of the United Nations. The start date of February 19 for the intergovernmental negotiations was announced to an informal General Assembly session on Thursday by assembly president Miguel D'Escoto, U.N. officials said. After years of deadlock, D'Escoto's predecessor began a fresh attempt in 2007 to get the negotiations under way. Discussions since then have covered the format of the talks as well as various proposals for expanding the council. Diplomats said the negotiations were expected to be held, at least initially, among experts from missions of the 192 U.N. member states. They said they were awaiting a work plan from D'Escoto at the inaugural meeting on how exactly the talks would be structured. NO QUICK OUTCOME A world summit in 2005 said reform of the Security Council would make it "more broadly representative, efficient and transparent and thus ... further enhance its effectiveness and the legitimacy and implementation of its decisions." But many diplomats believe there will be no quick outcome to the negotiations, due to regional rivalries and a concern by the big powers that their pre-eminence should not be diluted. Numerous plans have been put forward in the past, differing over how many new council seats should be added, who should have them, whether they should be permanent, semipermanent or time-limited, and which if any new states should get the veto. Last year, Germany -- one contender for a permanent seat -- and Cyprus circulated a draft text that proposed adding seven new members -- two each from Africa and Asia and one each from Latin America, western Europe and eastern Europe. It left open the terms of their membership. Just two weeks ago, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said his country and Britain would push for a temporary reform to unblock an issue he said was "not only not moving forward but is moving backwards." Sarkozy said the permanent members should include an African and Latin American state and India, adding that the membership of Germany and Japan could be discussed. 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