G4 nations underline need to reform UNSC to make it more legitimate
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Foreign Minister of Brazil Carlos Alberto Franco Franca, Federal Foreign Minister of Germany Heiko Maas, and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan Motegi Toshimitsu met on the sidelines of United Nations General Assembly in New York last night.
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New Delhi, September 23: In the major development, India and other G4 nations have reaffirmed the need to reform the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) through an expansion to make it more legitimate, effective, and representative.
The G-4 nations include Indai, Japan, Germany, and Brazil. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Foreign Minister of Brazil Carlos Alberto Franco Franca, Federal Foreign Minister of Germany Heiko Maas, and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan Motegi Toshimitsu met on the sidelines of United Nations General Assembly in New York last night.
As per the statement issued by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), the four foreign ministers underlined the urgency of reforming the UNSC to make it more legitimate, effective, and representative by reflecting the reality of the contemporary world, including developing countries and major contributors.
“The G4 Ministers reaffirmed that it is indispensable to reform the Security Council through an expansion of both categories, permanent and non-permanent seats, to enable the Security Council to better deal with the ever-complex and evolving challenges to the maintenance of international peace and security, and thereby to carry out its duties more effectively,” the statement said.
The G4 Ministers also reiterated their support for each other's candidatures as aspiring new permanent members in a reformed Security Council, it added.
They expressed their strong determination to work towards launching text-based negotiations without further delay in the Intergovernmental Negotiations (IGN), based on a single document, with a view to its adoption in the General Assembly.
The ministers instructed their delegations to the UN to support the efforts of the President of the 76th General Assembly Abdulla Shahid and the IGN chairs and to identify ways to develop a single consolidated text as a basis for a draft resolution.
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The four ministers also decided to intensify dialogue with all interested member states, including other reform-minded countries and groups, in order to seek concrete outcomes in a definite time frame.
The G-4 ministers, reviewing the work of the 75th session of the UNGA, welcomed that the Assembly reflected in its decision the commitment of all heads of state and government to instill new life in the discussions on the reform of the UNSC, as mentioned in the Declaration on the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the UN.
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