The United Nations General Assembly has decided to continue intergovernmental negotiations on enlarging the Security Council during its upcoming 78th session.

Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the world body at New York, Munir Akram in his remarks has urged the need to reach agreement on the principles of reform in all 5 Clusters.

He said this is the only agreed and accepted modality to promote Security Council reform and it would be unwise to disrupt the IGN process by advancing new modalities and precipitate initiatives.”

The so-called Group of Four — India, Brazil, Germany and Japan seek for themselves permanent seats on the Council have shown no flexibility in their push for expanding the Council by 10 seats, with six additional permanent and four non-permanent members.

On the other hand, the Italy/Pakistan-led Uniting for Consensus group has proposed a new category of members not permanent members with longer duration in terms and a possibility to get re-elected.