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India at the UN General Assembly said the UN Security Council should be more representative of developing countries, including Africa. The Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Security Council, Ambassador R Ravindra, made the remarks at the first plenary session on intergovernmental negotiations on the theme of "equitable representation and increase in the membership of the Security Council and other matters related to the City Council. .' In his statement on the topic of "regional representation", R Ravindra said that it is clear that outdated systems that were created to deal with the challenges of the past cannot be expected to respond to the myriad challenges of today's dynamic and interdependent." world". .
“The Security Council must be more representative of developing countries, including Africa. A truly representative Security Council is the most pressing need of the hour. Otherwise, there is a real danger that the UN will be replaced by other plurilateral and multilateral groupings. that they are more representative, more transparent and more democratic and therefore more effective,” said R Ravindra at the UNGA meeting.
“The Security Council can only offer effective solutions if it gives a voice to the voiceless rather than jealously preserving the status quo for the powerful,” he added.
R Ravindra said the Inter-Governmental Negotiation (IGN) approach needed a "complete review", according to the statement issued by the Permanent Mission of India to the UN. He stressed that an intergovernmental negotiation must become a regular negotiation process focused on the discussion of a single text with assigned positions and higher levels of transparency, which will make the process "more inclusive".
"We are convinced that our approach to the IGN process needs a complete overhaul. The IGN must become, before it is too late, a regular process of negotiation within the General Assembly, focused on the discussion of a single text with clearly assigned positions, and with higher levels of transparency and documentation, making it a more inclusive process,” R Ravindra said in a statement.
R Ravindra noted that they had been meeting in an informal format for 15 years. He said that they do not have a draft that consolidates the attributed positions of the interested parties to carry out the discussions. Ravindra said they did not have a single factual record of IGN's proceedings, according to the statement issued by the Permanent Mission of India to the UN.
In his statement, R Ravindra said that India will engage directly with the relevant section of the May 16, 2022 Co-Chairs' Revised Elements document and issue a statement on the text as G4. He said that India believed there was no need for a lengthy introduction to the document and that a factual record of the IGN meetings should be presented in a separate document.
"It is important to include work assignments in all parts of the document, as in any normal UN process. The fact that some sections of the membership do not want their positions to be clearly stated should not prevent others from having the right to have their positions stated clearly. tell them their points of view." duly reflected and attributed view. The attribution of positions contributes to the promotion of convergences”, declared R Ravindra.
"The divide between convergence and divergence throughout the document should ultimately be eliminated. The language used in all points grouped under "divergence" already clearly indicates that these issues require further discussion. Furthermore, the inclusion of attributions would also clearly indicate that the different positions are on the table on a particular issue,” he added.
