Overview
- In UN General Assembly remarks, Deputy Permanent Representative Yojna Patel called the Intergovernmental Negotiations a 17-year “theatre of the absurd” that recycles positions without outcomes.
- India urged an immediate shift to text-based negotiations with clear milestones and timelines, restating that reform must expand both permanent and non-permanent seats.
- General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock named Kuwait’s Tareq MAM AlBanai and the Netherlands’ Lise Gregoire-van Haaren as new co-chairs to try to restart the process.
- India accused the United for Consensus bloc, led by Italy and including Pakistan, of resisting a negotiating text and using calls for consensus as a de facto veto.
- Pakistan’s UN envoy said the G4 are the real obstacle by seeking permanent seats, backing a plan that adds only elected longer-term non-permanent seats with possible re-election.