United Nations
The long-running inter-governmental negotiations (IGN) aimed at reforming the UN Security Council (UNSC) will resume on January 25 to build on the work done in the previous meetings, General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir has said.
Progress in the negotiations was held up after India, Brazil, Germany and Japan—known as ‘Group of Four’—remained inflexible in their push for permanent seats in an expanded UNSC, while opponents insist that additional permanent members would not make the 15-member body more effective. Answering a question at a press conference at UN headquarters on Friday, Bozkir, a Turkish diplomat, said that since September 2020, when he assumed the presidentship of the 193-member UNGA, he has held negotiations with almost every group involved in the reform process.—APP
