United Nations: Ridiculing the nearly two decade-long futile negotiations to reform the Security Council as “theatre of the absurd”, India has called for a constructive approach that adopts a text to move the mired process forward.

“In the 17 years since the IGN format was initiated, it has been reduced to a theater of the absurd”, India’s Deputy Permanent Representative Yojna Patel said on Tuesday, referring to the Intergovernmental Negotiations on reforming the Council.

“Member states are trapped in an endless cycle of statements and discussions that lead nowhere”, she said at a General Assembly meeting on Council reform.

To bring credibility to the reform process, “India reiterates its call for the early start of text-based negotiations with transparent milestones and timelines”, Pa

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