Overview
- India’s UN envoy said the consensus-driven Intergovernmental Negotiations have become a disguised veto that prevents progress on Council reform.
- New Delhi and its G4 partners pressed for immediate text-based talks and expansion of both permanent and non-permanent seats, calling single-category changes meaningless.
- Pakistan, speaking for the Uniting for Consensus bloc, argued the G4’s bid for permanent seats blocks agreement and proposed longer-term elected seats with possible re-election instead.
- The UN General Assembly President appointed Kuwait’s Tareq M. A. M. AlBanai and the Netherlands’ Lise Gregoire-van Haaren as new co-chairs to steer the stalled process.
- India backed stronger representation for Africa and Small Island Developing States and rejected faith-based allocations such as a seat for the OIC.