Criticising a “frozen” UN Security Council that represents a small minority of the world’s population, India said only an “updated” and not “outdated” global institution can be effective in addressing the current challenges of conflict prevention and sustaining peace.
“While the world is changing, the institutional architecture primarily responsible for areas of peace and security remains frozen. The Security Council which takes decisions on behalf of ‘we the people’ represents an increasingly small minority of the world’s population,” India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin said at a Council debate here yesterday on ‘Conflict Prevention and Sustaining Peace’.