"Why go down that path now?" he asked alluding to attempts by some members to scuttle the convergence document. "Akbaruddin criticised the status of the reform process as "neither natural nor normal".It was "not normal and not natural that, we, as responsible representatives of states continue to cocoon ourselves from the enormity of the changes underway and articulate views endlessly with no framework for setting our house in order," he said.The Council was suffering form "legitimacy deficit" that is miring it in inefficacy and irrelevance, he said. "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. "We are at a cross road from where reform is the only way to maintain relevance," he said, appealing to the co-chairs of the IGN to "breathe new life into the process".

Source: Economic Times February 07, 2017 07:16 UTC