{"id":48127,"date":"2023-12-14T07:22:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T07:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=48127"},"modified":"2023-12-14T07:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T07:22:22","slug":"ambassador-kamboj-indias-initiative-to-include-african-union-in-g20-should-encourage-un-security-council-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/14\/ambassador-kamboj-indias-initiative-to-include-african-union-in-g20-should-encourage-un-security-council-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador Kamboj: India’s Initiative to Include African Union in G20 Should Encourage UN Security Council Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

United Nations, Dec 14: <\/strong>India\u2019s initiative to include the African Union as a permanent member of the G20 under its presidency is a significant step in reform that should inspire the \u201cmuch older\u201d United Nations to make the Security Council contemporary, New Delhi\u2019s envoy to the UN has said.
India\u2019s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj told the Intergovernmental Negotiations (IGN) meeting on Security Council Reforms on Wednesday that upon India\u2019s initiative, the African Union became a permanent member of the G20 at the New Delhi Summit in September this year.
The inclusion of the African Union in the G20 ensured that an \u201cimportant and valuable voice from the Global South is added to an influential institution of global governance and decision-making.
\u201cThis significant step in reform should inspire the United Nations, a much older organisation, to also make the Security Council contemporary. Broad representation is, after all, a prerequisite for both effectiveness and credibility,\u201d Kamboj said.
She underlined that it was India\u2019s firm conviction that with Africa\u2019s full participation in the G20, the grouping would truly be a more representative and relevant institution.
Kamboj stressed that the Summit of the Future to be held in September 2024 provides a \u201cgolden opportunity\u201d to reaffirm \u201cour common commitment to the UN Charter and undertake a review of the Charter focused on reforms in general, including Security Council reform.\u201d The UN has termed the Summit of the Future as a \u201conce-in-a-generation opportunity\u201d to enhance cooperation on critical challenges and address gaps in global governance, reaffirm existing commitments including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the United Nations Charter, and move towards a reinvigorated multilateral system that is better positioned to positively impact people\u2019s lives.
Kuwait and Austria, Co-Chairs of the IGN process, held an early first round of discussions here as India highlighted the urgency of addressing the \u201cburning issues\u201d related to the reform of the UN Security Council in a comprehensive and holistic fashion.
\u201cAs we make greater efforts to bridge divergences and find convergences since 2009, stepping into the 15th year of IGN, my delegation is firmly of the view that we cannot have old wine in new bottles and expect new results, which is comprehensive reforms,\u201d Kamboj said.
She recalled that during the annual high-level UNGA session in September this year, the General Assembly heard \u201cunequivocal calls\u201d for comprehensive and meaningful reforms from more than 85 global leaders.
\u201cThese calls must be answered. We must all realize that the clock is ticking, and turning the other way in the face of global challenges is just not an option\u2026Multilateral institutions rarely die, they simply fade into irrelevance,\u201d she said.
India has been at the forefront of years-long efforts to reform the Security Council, saying it rightly deserves a place as a permanent member at the UN high table, which in its current form does not represent the geo-political realities of the 21st Century.
Kamboj said India, as the world\u2019s largest democracy, will continue to strive for the voice of the Global South to be heard on the urgency of immediate action on UNSC reform.
She added that a large majority of the Member States support expansion of both permanent and non-permanent categories of UNSC membership.
\u201cExpanding only in the non-permanent category will not solve the problem, it will in fact not reform one category of the UNSC at all and \u2013 in fact it will widen the difference between permanent and non-permanent members even more, further entrenching a dispensation that is no longer relevant in the current geopolitical context,\u201d she said.
India warned that the collective failure of the international community to make concrete progress on the issue of Security Council Reform at this critical juncture will be \u201cinterpreted as an attempt towards the preservation of the failed status quo, the brunt of which is borne by real people around the world, who are grappling with real threats, both existing and emerging.\u201d (Agencies)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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