India Calls for UN Security Council Reform

India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, at the BRICS foreign ministers' conclave in New Delhi, strongly advocated for the reform and expansion of the International — United Nations Security Council. He emphasized that without meaningful reform, including increased representation for Asia, Africa, and Americas, the UN's effectiveness and credibility would remain constrained. Jaishankar also called for urgent reforms to the international financial architecture to address economic challenges like supply chain vulnerabilities and inequalities in resource access. Additionally, he pressed for strengthening and reforming the multilateral trading system, with the World Trade Organization at its core, to ensure a rules-based, fair, and inclusive global economy that reflects the concerns of developing countries.