South Africa has made a firm call for the UN General Assembly to move the Intergovernmental Negotiations on Security Council reform to text-based negotiations.
South Africa says the current composition of the Council is antiquated. The statement was made as member states took a consensus position in endorsing an oral decision by the President of the Assembly to continue the negotiation process into the 76th session which commences in September under new leadership.
Some members, led by Germany, earlier raised objections to the technical rollover decision over concerns that it did not explicitly move the process to text-based negotiations which has been a key demand of certain member states.

South Africa has made a firm call for the UN General Assembly to move the Intergovernmental Negotiations on Security Council reform to text-based negotiations.<br>South Africa says the current composition of the Council is antiquated. The statement was made as member states took a consensus position in endorsing an oral decision by the President of the Assembly to continue the negotiation process into the 76th session which commences in September under new leadership.<br>Some members, led by Germany, earlier raised objections to the technical rollover decision over concerns that it did not explicitly move the process to text-based negotiations which has been a key demand of certain member states.

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