United Nations: India has made a strong call to reform the UN Security Council, stressing that the process to expand the powerful body cannot go on infinitely and a results-based timeline is crucial to achieve a concrete outcome.
“The process of bringing about UNSC reforms cannot be seen to be an exercise ad infinitum. A results-based timeline is imperative, and those who ask for not imposing artificial timelines may be advised to desist from inflicting artificial delays on this process,” India's Ambassador to the UN Asoke Kumar Mukerji said on the Annual Report of the UN Security Council at the General Assembly yesterday.
With the 70th anniversary of the United Nations scheduled to be commemorated in 2015 development agenda, Mukerji said it is important that the nations deliver on the most important unfinished mandates which is early reform of the Security Council.
“Indeed, while all other mandates...have been fulfilled or remain work in progress, it is only this which remains ‘work without any progress', still stuck where it was in 2005. This is an unacceptable interpretation of the words ‘early reform' unanimously argued to by all Members of the United Nations eight years ago,” he said.
