On G20 margins, push for UN reform

Reaffirming their traditional position on the global governance architecture, India and Brazil, the current and future presidencies of the G20, have made a renewed pitch for the comprehensive reform of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to include both permanent and non-permanent members, and expressed support for each other's candidature as permanent members.

- Prashant Jha, Sutirtho Patranobis

PM Narendra Modi and Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a joint India-Brazil statement said, have agreed to have "regular bilateral coordination meetings on Security Council Reform".

"The two leaders expressed disappointment at the paralysis created at the Inter-Governmental Negotiations on Security Council reform, which have not produced tangible progress," the statement said. The two countries are also seen as important pillars of the Global South.

Separately, Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that having a country like India in the UNSC would be a matter of pride. "As you know, the world is bigger than larger than five." Alluding to the current set of permanent members, he added, "And when we say the world is larger than five, what we mean is that it's not only about the US, UK, France, China and Russia." 

Erdogan, however, pitched for rotational membership of the council where each state in the world got a turn.