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US delays speech is UN and accelerates plan to split the G-4 : India plans to stand tall with demands for India, Brazil, Japan and Germany
US is applying intense diplomatic pressures on the G-4 nations to split them. The G-4 nations: India, Brazil, Japan and Germany plan to table the G-4 proposal for expanding the security council seats in the general Assembly. China opposes the inclusion of India and Japan. But this matter as pointed out by diplomats in UN does not go to the Security Council and therefore neither China nor America can apply veto power. The matter will be decided by the general assembly.
The G-4 is meeting in Brussels. China and America are putting enormous pressure to split G-4 and not table the expansion of Security Council in the General Assembly. India is listed as the 32nd speaker in the debate. The deputy permanent representative, A. Gopinathan, will outline its stand, as Nirupam Sen, India’s UN ambassador, is a key player in the diplomatic moves in Brussels. India will push for recognition of not only South Asia but also Central/South America and Africa. India will appeal to all non-aligned nations tired of the current Security Council to expand the council with G-4.
According to media sources, US representative to the UN Anne Patterson has delayed her potentially landmark statement on UN reform in the General Assembly today by 24 hours.
The statement was widely expected to announce America’s support for India’s claim to one of the new permanent seats and expand on the criteria set out by the state department last week for expanding membership of the Security Council.
Notwithstanding delay in Patterson’s statement, efforts to thwart the G4 strategy will consume American diplomacy in the next 48 hours.
Before arriving in New Delhi for talks with Indian officials, the US under-secretary of state for political affairs, Nicholas Burns, will stop in London tomorrow to meet his counterparts from the other permanent members of the Security Council.
He will make yet another effort to persuade Japan not to table the G4 resolution on the Security Council expansion in the General Assembly when he meets his Japanese counterpart separately in London.
Patterson yesterday asked the General Assembly secretariat to reschedule her speech. She is now the 42nd speaker in the current debate in the Assembly.
Diplomats at the UN said she ostensibly sought more time after African and Latin American countries reacted adversely to Washington’s plans to selectively support only India and Japan for permanent seats in the Security Council.
Angry that the US was ignoring Africa and Latin America, several states from these regions, which were earlier lukewarm in their support for G4, rallied under the group’s banner.
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