India has cautioned against questioning the “convergence” of views that took the negotiation process for Security Council reforms forward instead of building up on that progress. He said that when the chair of the last IGN session, Sylvie Lucas, presented the paper, “no one questioned how many spoke and how many did not”. “Why go down that path now?” he asked alluding to attempts by some members to scuttle the convergence document. In the last session, that momentum was lost, but there was slight progress with the document on convergence. “At a time of growing dismay with the existing international order, our persistent inability to move the reform process forward is viewed as the inability of the multilateral system to fix what is broken,” Akbaruddin said.

Source: Hindustan Times February 07, 2017 08:48 UTC