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UN Security Council needs to be reformed without delay: India

UN Security Council needs to be reformed without delay: India
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United Nations, Oct 9 (PTI) India has said that the UN Security Council needs to be reformed without delay or else it will be left to nurse its self-inflicted wounds of “diminishing relevance” in a world awash with challenges like armed conflicts, terrorism, refugee crises and climate change.

Participating in a General Assembly session on ‘Report of the Secretary-General on the Work of the Organisation’ on Monday, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin said the 15-nation council is all about primacy but with little purpose.

“Updating the current architecture of international institutions, which are so out of sync with the modern world, is imperative if new global challenges are to be met. Nowhere is this need for common purpose required more than in reforming the Security Council,” Akbaruddin said here.

“We need to fix the flaws. We need to do it before it is too late. We need to do so before the technologies of the future sharpen the conflicts of the past, while the Council remains nursing its self-inflicted wounds of diminishing relevance,” he said.

Akbaruddin asserted that nations cannot pose as guardians of a status quo that no longer exists.

 


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