India is the main player on the world stage today: Ambassador Albanai, Chairman of IGN

If the decision is made to expand the UN Security Council decision, then “certainly” India will tell the president of the Intergovernmental Negotiation (IGN) for UN Security Council reform on Thursday.

“The goal of this reform committee must be to represent. Obviously, India is the main player on the world stage today. But it is [UN] It is a member of 193 countries. This consideration is representative of everyone and all members of the United Nations. ”

“Of course, if the decision is made to expand the Council from 21 to 27 members, then India will certainly be a competitor to the competitor and will be subject to a wider membership decision,” Mr Albany said in a question. pti.

Mr. Albanai, who is the permanent representative of the United Nations, recalled that he visited India last year with Alexander Marschik, co-chair of Austria’s co-chairman Alexander Marschik, and spoke on the “highest level” of UNSC reform.

Updated during the progress made in the IGN process during the current 79th UNGA Conference, the Ambassador said that while the road to reform is undoubtedly complex, we are moving towards stable and meaningful steps toward the path forward”.

He noted that in addition to the increase in elected members in 1965, the first iteration of the Security Council lasted for more than 80 years. “Whatever the reform council takes is to endure the next century and be based on the principles of inclusion, transparency, efficiency, effectiveness, democracy and accountability.”

He answered a question about how many members the UNSC must have, he said there is no decision yet, but the figures are between 21 and 27 member states.

Regarding the issue of text-based negotiations, Mr. Albanai pointed out that India’s position has always been to move towards text-based negotiations as soon as possible. “Obviously, this process will lead us to text-based negotiations” because it is the “most complicated” part of the process.

“The most complex part is having a consent to what this article contains and then putting it on paper is not that difficult… Are we reaching a consensus? Yes, we have reached a consensus on many issues about five clusters, many convergence issues, many issues that we have been able to bring together in all these years. In all of these groups, we are still consistent in fighting for it, we are consistent in our efforts, we are consistent in our efforts, we are consistent in our efforts, we are working hard, we are working hard, we are working hard.

These five issues are the category of membership, veto, regional representatives, the expansion of the Security Council and the working methods of the Council and the relationship between the Council and the General Assembly.

Mr Albany said the momentum displayed by member states at this session “encourages” him. “The spirit of reform requires courage and creativity, and the active participation of all delegations remains crucial as we strive to reach consensus on the core elements of the Security Council’s reform.”

Earlier this week, India represented the representative of UN Ambassador P. Harish in a statement representing G4 countries in Brazil, Germany, Japan and India, who told the IGN Conference that the existing non-buildings are from different eras that no longer exist, and the current geopolitical reality is a review of such buildings.

Mr Harish said that the membership of the Security Council needs to increase from the current 15 or 26 to 25 or 26, consisting of the Reform Commission, consisting of 11 permanent members and 14 or 15 non-serving members.

Currently, the powerful UN figure is composed of five permanent members who rejected – China, France, Russia, Britain and the United States, with the remaining 10 members elected as non-permanent members for two years of riding tables. India served as a non-permanent member for the last time in 2021-22.

G4 countries also encourage member states to submit further reform models to facilitate text-based negotiations. “We invite the Chair to start text-based negotiations now, ideally, by the end of the current IGN,” the organization said.

Mr. Albany and Mr. Mahik met with Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar in February last year, who said in an article on X that he was “thanks them for their assessment of the ongoing discussions about UNSC reforms”. “The international community hopes that under their management, the IGN process will continue to move forward this year,” he posted online.

After the meeting, Kuwait said to X’s permanent mission that both sides discussed the continued development of the reform process and the way it could develop further.

The mission said: “The Co-Chairman thanked the Indian Foreign Minister for his generous invitation and praised India’s commitment to this crucial process.”

However, Mr. Albanai said he could not tell whether the reform was carried out in 2030 or any other year.

“I’m very active in breaking any barriers because people understand that we need something different and that the member states understand that this is the call for help from the world community that can solve all problems, including peace and security, development, development and human rights,” he said.

“We are all working together to make it a better UN…the Security Council reform process is part of that,” he said.