PM Modi Hosts G4: Can He Push UN Security Council Reforms?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today hosted a G4 summit in New York where the heads of four states - India, Brazil, Germany and Japan - called for a "more representative, legitimate and effective Security Council". They described themselves as "legitimate candidates for permanent membership in an expanded and reformed Council" and said that the "process underway in the UN to bring about the reform of the Security Council should be conducted, given its urgency, in a fixed time frame". We debate the implications of this meeting and whether there was more to it than just the photo-op?
