India Calls For UN Security Council Reform, Stresses Need For Representation

India's Permanent UN Representative Parvathaneni Harish highlighted India's commitment to cooperative and inclusive international relations, stressing that reform is essential for the UN's legitimacy and credibility.

India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), Parvathaneni Harish, on Monday stressed the need for UN Security Council reform, noting that despite decades of discussions, there have been no significant changes since 1965. #IndiaAtUNPR @AmbHarishP delivered 🇮🇳's statement at the Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on ‘Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and other matters related to the Security Council' today. pic.twitter.com/1SDKiTSVtr

Addressing the Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly in New York, Mr Harish said, "As we begin this year's deliberations, we note that the reform of the UN Security Council was once again identified as a critical and immediate priority at the summit of the future discussions by our leaders. However, in spite of several decades of collective reiteration of this sentiment, it is disheartening that we have had no results to show in this regard since 1965 when the Council was last expanded in the non-permanent category alone."

Mr Harish pointed to three key factors hindering progress: the ineffective intergovernmental negotiation process, the insistence on consensus by some countries, and the lack of representation for the Global South.