UN needs to get its act together before it gets sidelined.
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To break the decade-long deadlock in the negotiations for Security Council reform, India has suggested adopting the General Assembly’s rules of procedure with voting to deny “naysayers” their virtual veto under the current process. India’s Permanent Representative Syed Akbaruddin told the General Assembly on Tuesday: “Naysayers cannot be allowed to cast a dark shadow over the entire membership and hold the overwhelming majority back. “Some amongst us cannot hold the entire process hostage by bending the rules of negotiations.”
The reform process has stalled during almost ten rounds of negotiations primarily because ‘United for Consensus’, a 12-member group that opposes adding permanent members, has used the procedural gambit of preventing the adoption of a negotiating text to be the basis of the talks and move it forward. It is led by Italy and includes Pakistan.
To overcome this hurdle, Akbaruddin said that the Inter-Governmental Negotiations (IGN), as the reform process is known, should operate under normal rules of procedure like all other General Assembly processes. “In the General Assembly, all a naysayer can do is, at best, cast a negative vote,” he said. After a vote, the majority prevails in the Assembly.
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India suggests voting to break UN Security Council reform deadlock
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To break the decade-long deadlock in the negotiations for Security Council reform, India has suggested adopting the General Assembly’s rules of procedure with voting to deny “naysayers” their virtual veto under the current process. India’s Permanent Representative Syed Akbaruddin told the General Assembly on Tuesday: “Naysayers cannot be allowed to cast a dark shadow over the entire membership and hold the overwhelming majority back. “Some amongst us cannot hold the entire process hostage by bending the rules of negotiations.”
The reform process has stalled during almost ten rounds of negotiations primarily because ‘United for Consensus’, a 12-member group that opposes adding permanent members, has used the procedural gambit of preventing the adoption of a negotiating text to be the basis of the talks and move it forward. It is led by Italy and includes Pakistan.
To overcome this hurdle, Akbaruddin said that the Inter-Governmental Negotiations (IGN), as the reform process is known, should operate under normal rules of procedure like all other General Assembly processes. “In the General Assembly, all a naysayer can do is, at best, cast a negative vote,” he said. After a vote, the majority prevails in the Assembly.
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India suggests voting to break UN Security Council reform deadlock
