Quarter Century passed, can’t wait anymore: Ruchira Kamboj on UN Security Council reforms

Mar 10, 2024

New York (US), March 10 (ANI): India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ruchira Kamboj on March 09 talked about the need for reforms in the Security Council. She asserted that the world and the future generations can no longer wait for it. Ruchira Kamboj said, “Discussions on reform of the Security Council have been going on, as you well know, in earnest for well over a decade, since the early 1990s. In addition, world leaders at the Millennium Summit in the year 2000 had resolved to intensify efforts to achieve a comprehensive reform of the Security Council in all its aspects. Nearly a quarter century has passed. The world and our future generations can no longer wait. How much longer must they wait? The Summit of the future, this September and the 80th anniversary of the United Nations next year are important milestones towards which we should aim to make concrete progress. We must push forward a reform heeding the voices of the young and future generations, including from Africa, where the demand to correct historical injustice grows even stronger. Otherwise, we simply risk sending the council down the path of oblivion and irrelevant.”