UK, France, Nepal supported G4 nation for permanent member of UNSC:The UK, France and Nepal on 13 November 2014 supported candidature of India, Germany, Brazil and Japan (G4 nations) for permanent member of a reformed UN Security Council (UNSC). They also emphasized African representation and expansion of the non-permanent seats. The decision to support the G4 nation’s candidature was expressed by these nations during the debate Equitable Representation and Increase in Security Council in the UN General Assembly.During the debate many participating nations noted that it had been 50 years since the council underwent its first and only reform and almost 10 years since the 2005 World Summit, where the world leaders agreed to initiate a reform process. India’s Viewpoint India repeated that there is an urgent need to achieve reform of the powerful UN body by 2015 and a text should be tabled for the member states to begin actual negotiations on UNSC reform and expansion as it described an unreformed Security Council as a seriously impaired organ. Indias Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Asoke Mukerji highlighting the shortfalls of an unreformed Security Council said that even in the area of its core competence, the 15-nation body is unable to act with credibility essentially due to its unrepresentative nature.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 06:29:41 +0000
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