In a setback to India’s push for restructuring the UN Security Council this year in order to secure a permanent seat, the General Assembly has approved a decision to continue the long-running inter-governmental negotiations to reform the 15-member body in the next Assembly session.
In a sharp contrast to the last year’s decision that was marked by a lot of acrimony among member states, this year’s move to roll over the reform discussions to the 71st session was adopted smoothly.
But India, along with other Group of Four nations — Brazil, Germany and Japan — did say that it is “unfortunate” that momentum towards restructuring the council could not build up over the issue in the current session.
According to informed sources, India and its allies had failed in their determined drive to move the framework document on the reform process to a negotiating text.
