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佐藤栄作　受賞論文集

第21回優秀賞bers may be invited to participate”(Natalie Reid 2 ). It seems that“official meetings arelike theater, performing a play written and conceived in informal consultations beforehand”(LoieFeuerle, pp267) It’s just like an exercise in Japanese theater of Kabuki. It’snothing more than the exaggerated simulation of what is pre-determined drama.The supporters of this practice“argue that the new-found efficiency of the SecurityCouncil is enhanced by the informal format in which the overwhelming majority ofits meetings take place, and that further moves towards increasing the transparencyof informal consultations would only hamper the smooth functioning of the UN’s supremeorgan”(Natalie Reid 1 ). It surely enhances organizing capacity for the SecurityCouncil to build consensus of members with the unanimous agreement correspondingto the balance of power in Cold War era. With the symmetrically balanced power, easilyattained and affirmed is quasi accordance between the official and the unofficial, theformal and the informal, and the conventional and the unconventional. The conclusionreflecting the balance of two superpowers is plausible to be shared and confirmedmore thoroughly through informal consultation than formal one.On the other hand,“to its opponents, the informal consultation of the whole is differentfrom the official public meeting in only one regard, and that is not in its lack ofinstitutionalization. For them, the fact that all the nuts-and bolts work of the Councilis accomplished without the possibility of input by anyone who is not a member of the‘club’, nor the maintenance of a public record, smacks of the secret diplomacy of centuriespast”(Natalie Reid 1 ). Ambassador Antonio Monteiro, permanent representativeof Portugal presented his statement:“In our experience, the prevalence of‘informalconsultations’has not brought substantial gains in expediting the Council’s work ormaking it more efficient. Rather it has made the Council less transparent and has widenedthe gap between the Council and the rest of the membership”.387