Sylvie Lucas

Moving the long-pending UN Security Council (UNSC) reform process forward, the chair of the inter-governmental negotiations will convene a series of meetings beginning in February next year, a development that bodes well for India which has been demanding an early completion of the process.

The U.N. Security Council took up the issue of North Korea's bleak human rights situation for the first time on Monday, a groundbreaking step toward possibly holding the nuclear-armed but desperately poor country and leader Kim Jong Un accountable for alleged crimes against humanity. North Korea quickly denounced the move.

Moving the long-pending UN Security Council (UNSC) reform process forward, the chair of the inter-governmental negotiations will convene a series of meetings beginning in February next year, a development that bodes well for India which has been demanding an early completion of the process.

The U.N. Security Council took up the issue of North Korea's bleak human rights situation for the first time on Monday, a groundbreaking step toward possibly holding the nuclear-armed but desperately poor country and leader Kim Jong Un accountable for alleged crimes against humanity. North Korea quickly denounced the move.