India has reiterated its long pending demand for reforms in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) at its meeting on Monday. India's permanent representative to the United Nations, Ruchira Kamboj, said India cannot stay behind the smokescreen to wait for a process that has no time frame and text.
“We can no longer hide behind the smokescreen of the Intergovernmental Negotiations by delivering entrenched national positions in a process which has no time frame, and no text. We should embark upon the only established process in the United Nations, which is by engaging in negotiations based on text and not through speaking at each other or past each other, as we have done for the past three decades. As the threats to international peace and security evolve, so must this council. We ask those blocking progress on this vital issue to heed calls for genuine reform and contribute to making this council truly fit for purpose for the 21st century,” she said.
This came days after Ruchira highlighted the need for immediate reforms in the UNSC while speaking at the 78th session's informal meeting in New York on Saturday. She said the world and the future generation cannot wait to see this reform. "In addition, world leaders at the Millennium Summit in the year 2000 had resolved to intensify efforts to achieve a comprehensive reform of the Security Council in all its aspects. Nearly a quarter century has passed. The world and our future generations can no longer wait. How much longer must they wait?" she said while questioning the delay in the process of bringing reforms.
"We must push forward a reform heeding the voices of the young and future generations, including from Africa, where the demand to correct historical injustice grows even stronger. Otherwise, we simply risk sending the council down the path of oblivion and irrelevant," she added.
UK sided with India on this issue saying it was high time when reforms must be introduced with a permanent seat to the countries including India, Germany, Japan and Brazil.
“The Security Council should be more representative of today's world. We support its expansion & want to see a more diverse, effective Council. The G4 nations — Brazil, Germany, India & Japan —should have permanent seats and there should be permanent representation for Africa,” UK at the UN posted on X.