Uruguay will consider its "historical relation with Brazil" when defining its position on Brazil's candidacy for a permanent member of the UN Security Council, Foreign Minister Reinaldo Gargano was quoted as saying by press reports on Saturday.

Uruguay agrees with other countries on the need to reform the Security Council, but has not taken a definitive stance, Gargano told a press conference on Friday evening after a summit between the presidents of Uruguay and Brazil.

The Security Council is the only UN organ whose decisions are legally binding on world governments. It is currently composed of five veto-holding permanent members -- China, Russia, Britain, the United States and France -- and 10 elected two-year-term members.

Bringing more members into the Security Council is the core of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's reform plan.

On Thursday, Germany, Japan, India and Brazil, the four main competitors for new permanent seats on an expanded Security Council, proposed putting the issue of enlarging the powerful UN organ to a vote in the 191-nation General Assembly.

Source: Xinhua