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The UN headquarters in New York - Mr Malloch Brown has been with the UN since 1999 (Photo: Wikipedia)

EU heading for single UN seat, UN official says

The UN's deputy secretary general believes the European Commission will in future represent the EU in the United Nations as the voice of the European bloc worldwide.

"I think it will go in stages," Mark Malloch Brown told EUobserver on Monday (2 October). He explained that the European Commission already has an observer seat on the executive board for funds and programmes, where the commission is a big donor.

"We are going to see a growing spread of that and then steady formalisat...

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The UN headquarters in New York - Mr Malloch Brown has been with the UN since 1999 (Photo: Wikipedia)

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