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The lack of transparency in the procedure of Security Council with both formal andinformal meeting goes hand in hand with unilateralism of superpower. Under UShegemony in post Cold War, informal consultation provides US with the device forexerting undue influence on framing resolutions. Legitimacy of the discourse is utterlydoubtful.“Insofar as norms express generalizable interests, they are based on a rationalconsensus (or they would find such a consensus if practical discourse could takeplace). Insofar as norms do not regulate generalizable interests, they are based onforce〔Gewalt〕”(Jurgen Habermas,pp111). Based upon force rather than rationality,both formal and informal meeting to attain consensus are hardly enough to express“generalizable interests”.The opponents to the practice raise issue with two elements of lack of transparency:“the near-total absence of official records (the one counter example being the briefagendas printed in the daily UN Journal), and the fact that they are completely closedto non-members”(Natalie Reid 2 ). With“the near-total absence of official records”andno participation, non members have no way to share the substantial information ofresolutions. The rights and benefits,“generalizable interests”, UN should ensure to allof member States, are hardly regulated with the procedure practiced in the informalconsultation chamber. For the lack of transparency the practical procedure of informalconsultations leading to resolutions is not only a quite a departure from“norms”but could not express“generalizable interests”which should be shared by all memberStates with rational consensus. It’s nothing else but a realpoltik based upon force. Besides,with the relevant information shared by just only a few members and distributedasymmetrically, unevenly among member States, fairness among them is severelycompromised. The representative from France said in 1994:“informal meetings arenot even real Council meetings; they have no official existence, and are assigned no388