New Delhi:

India has stressed the need for urgent reforms within the UN Security Council, saying otherwise the global body will drift into “oblivion”. Expressing disappointment at the protracted discussions, India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ruchila Kamboi said nearly 25 years have passed since world leaders committed to comprehensive reforms at the 2000 Millennium Summit.

“Discussions on Security Council reform have been going on for more than a decade, since the early 1990s. The world and our future generations cannot wait any longer. How much longer will they have to wait?” she said at an informal meeting on Security Council reform. .

Ms Kamboy urged concrete progress on reforms, stressing the importance of listening to the voices of younger generations and redressing historical injustices, particularly in Africa.

Warning against maintaining the status quo, Ms Kamboy proposed a more inclusive approach and warned that limiting the expansion of the Security Council’s non-permanent membership could exacerbate disparities in its composition. She stressed the need for representation and equitable participation to enhance the Council’s overall legitimacy.

She said: “We must push for reforms and listen to the voices of young people and future generations, including from Africa, where demands to redress historical injustices become even stronger. Otherwise, we risk setting the Council on a path to oblivion and oblivion. Irrelevant roads,” said.

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Echoing India’s call for greater representation, the G4 countries (India, Brazil, Germany and Japan) stressed the importance of reflecting the diversity and diverse perspectives of the 193 member states, particularly in the non-permanent category.

Camboje recommended taking practical action to identify specific groups or countries that deserve special consideration in the reform process and listen carefully to their voices. “Member states should also make full use of the possibility of cross-regional arrangements to ensure that the diversity of General Assembly members is fully reflected in the Security Council,” she said. “We believe that in order to move the discussion from the abstract to the concrete, member states first identify and define which specific Groups or countries deserve special consideration in this regard and then it would be useful to listen carefully to their voices.”

Earlier on February 17, Ms Kamboy reiterated India’s support for comprehensive reform of the UN Security Council in all five groups, including expansion of the permanent and non-permanent categories.