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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 (12:44:04) |
| Tags : IBSA, UNSC, UNGA,, United Nations General Assembly |
IBSA welcomes UNGA's decision to expand UNSC |
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New York: Welcoming the United Nations General Assembly's decision to commence inter-governmental negotiations for expanding the powerful 15-member Security Council, India, Brazil and South Africa have said that the move was necessary to make the Council more "more democratic, legitimate, representative and responsive". In a statement issued on Monday, foreign ministers of the three countries, partners in the India-Brazil-South Africa Dialogue Forum (IBSA), said that expansion in both permanent and non-permanent categories is necessary to make the Council and they reiterated their decision to jointly pursue the Assembly's decision with a view to achieving concrete results.
The statement was issued after Foreign Ministers Pranab Mukherjee, Celso Amorim of Brazil and Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma of South Africa met on the sidelines of the UNGA session to review international issues as also the cooperation among themselves. In a major victory for India, the Open Ended Working Group (OEWG), which had been unsuccessfully trying for last 15 years to bring about a consensus on the issue of expansion of the Council, had decided that the inter-governmental negotiations will begin before February, 28 next year on the basis of proposals put forward by various member States.
Pakistan and Italy-led Uniting for Consensus (UFC) group had tried to block the OEWG decision to start inter- governmental negotiations but withdrew their objection after it became clear that they lacked majority and India and their supporters were moving towards demanding a vote on the motion to go in for inter governmental negotiations. India, Brazil, Japan, Germany and South Africa are strong contenders for a permanent seat in the Council. (PTI) |
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