‘Very disappointing… procrastination has been happening since 1965’, India lashed out at UNSC reforms, know what they said

India has cautioned against efforts to make minor changes to the existing structure of the UN Security Council, saying it could lead to indefinitely postponing important elements like expansion of permanent membership and focus on under-representation of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Could.

India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador P Harish, said this on Monday (November 10, 2024) in the annual plenary session of the United Nations General Assembly on the question of equitable representation and increase in membership in the Security Council. He said that despite the urgent need for reform of the UNSC having been repeatedly reiterated for many decades, it is disappointing that we have no results to show in this regard since 1965, when the last expansion of the Security Council was only in the temporary category. Was done in.

In the year 1965, the membership of the Council was increased from six elected members to 10. Pointing to the nature of the process of Inter-Governmental Dialogue (IGN), P Harish said that after 16 years of its inception, the IGN is mainly limited to exchange of statements rather than dialogue with each other. . He said, ‘No text of conversation. No time limit. And no definite end goal.

India has stressed that while it seeks real concrete progress at the IGN, including progress with respect to the development of a new model of Security Council reform as a precursor to text-based negotiations, Delhi Urges to be careful in matters. P. Harish said that the first is that the requirement of a minimum threshold of information from member states should not force them to wait for an indefinite period to present their model. Furthermore, the development of an ensemble model based on convergence should not lead to a race to find the lowest common ‘denominator’.

He cautioned that this could lead to the postponement of important elements such as expansion of the permanent category and attention to the under-representation of countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, indefinitely or even long into the future. India has also expressed concern that the argument for consensus is being made by a few select countries favoring the status quo.

“Their argument is that we must all agree on everything before we even begin text-based negotiations! Surely, we could not have a stranger case of ‘putting the cart before the horse’. P. Harish said that as a member of the Global South, India believes that representation is an indispensable condition for both the legitimacy and effectiveness of not only the Council, but the entire United Nations.

The term Global South is generally used to refer to economically less developed countries. India has been at the forefront of efforts over the years to reform the Security Council, including the expansion of both its permanent and non-permanent categories. India says the 15-member council, established in 1945, is not fit for purpose for the 21st century and does not reflect contemporary geopolitical realities. India has emphasized that it rightfully deserves a permanent seat in the UN Security Council. In his address at the UN’s historic ‘Summit for the Future’ in September this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had emphasized that reforms in global institutions are necessary for global peace and development and reforms are the key to relevance.

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