United Nations:
India has called efforts to introduce new parameters such as religion and beliefs as the basis of representation in a improved United Nations Security Council, claiming that it fully combats the accepted basis of regional representation.
India’s permanent representative of United Nations Ambassador P Harish told the inter-governmental talks (IGN) meeting on ‘Cluster Discussion on Size and Regional Representation’, that people do not progress on UNSC reforms in protest against lesson-based negotiations.
Harish said in his national capacity, “Attempts to introduce new parameters such as religion and beliefs, as the basis for representation in a correvated council, run a fully counter for regional representation as the basis for representation, which has been an accepted basis for representation in the United Nations.”
He said that the argument that an extended and improvised security council would not be efficient is an attempt to prevent real reforms.
“An improvised council will be equipped with appropriate work methods and accountability mechanisms, to effectively function and distribute it meaningfully on suppressing global issues,” he said.
India said that a consolidated model that does not cover the expansion in both permanent and non-stable categories will not achieve the purpose of improvement, further the status quo.
Prior to commenting in his national capacity, Harish made a statement from the G4 countries of Brazil, Germany, Japan and India, in which Samuhan underlined the regional representation that is an approved practice that stands on the test of time in the United Nations.
The G4 said, “Proposals to introduce new parameters, such as religious affiliation to establish the United Nations practice and add a lot of complexity to the already difficult discussion.”
The group stated that the current United Nations architecture is from a different era, one that is no longer present and the current geopolitical realities review this architecture.
Harish said in a statement on behalf of the G4 nations, “Those who do not support real reforms reflect contemporary realities that come to the wrong side of history, which is harmful to all of us.”
UNSC underlining the broad forms of the G4 model, a model that was presented and expanded by Samabahan during the IGN meetings in 2024, said Harish said that Harish needs to increase the membership of the Security Council to the current 15 to 25 or 26, including 11 permanent members and 14 or 15 or 15 non-composite in a reform council.
Currently, the powerful United Nations limbs have five permanent members – China, France, Russia, UK and America.
The remaining 10 members are selected to sit on the horse-shout table for two years as non-installed members.
India sat in the council for the last time in 2021-22 as a non-established member.
G4 nations reiterated that any improvement with the expansion of both permanent and non-instant categories is incomplete in the widespread membership point of view.
“Member states who only take membership of non-stable category expansion, completely ignore the existing imbalance in the permanent category. Such an approach fails to address non-compatibility and underpractions in this category,” the group said that it does not address the valid aspirations of the developing world, especially.
“Only adding non-installed members will rarely change the dynamics of electricity to the council and thus, push the power of permanent members,” G4 said.
Furthermore, the group of four insisted that the path of achieving real reforms like any other United Nations process is the text-based dialogue, including clearly defined timelines and milestones.
Last year, recognizing the urgency of this reform process with an agreement for the future, G4 encouraged the member states and regional groups to present further models of reforms to facilitate lesson-based negotiations.
“We invite the chair to start a lesson-based dialogue, ideally by the end of the current IGN,” he said.
G4 further outlined that a decision on member states that would become a permanent member of a corrected council, is a democratic decision by the General Assembly.
The solidarity for unanimous (UFC) group including Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Malta, Mexico, Pakistan, Republic of Korea, San Marino, Spain, Turki and Italy, reiterated its position of increasing the number of security councils of security councils in particularly non-agent category. The UFC proposed a 27-member Security Council, currently at five, without any increase in the number of permanent members.
Bahrain made a statement from the Arab group, reiterating the demand for one billion representation with full privileges in the permanent seat category in an extended council.
The Arab group said, “We also confirm that simply representation requires proportional Arab representation in the non-installed seat category within the Extended Security Council,”
“This requires justified and proportional Arab representation within the Extended Security Council,” the Arab group said.
France reiterated its support for India to sit in the council as a permanent member. “We are in favor of giving two permanent seats for permanent seats to Brazil, India, Germany and Japan for the African states, which will be made for their geographical groups,” said the Deputy Permanent Representative of France, France, France.
Dharmadhikari said, “France considers the permanent members of the future valid to request all privileges associated with this situation, including the right to veto.”
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