Why India is ready to temporarily give up veto power to secure UNSC Permanent Membership?

March,9,2017:

India, Brazil, Germany and Japan constitute the G4, which lobbies for Council reforms and they mutually support each other's candidatures for permanent seats on an expanded body.

India & other members of G4 have offered to initially forgo veto powers as permanent members in a reformed Security Council like a bargaining chip to get reform process moving.

India’s Permanent Representative Syed Akbaruddin who was speaking on Tuesday on behalf of G4 at Inter-Governmental Negotiations (IGN) on Council reforms, stated that issue of veto is very important, but we shouldn't allow it to have veto over process of Council reform itself.

While new permanent members would in principle have veto powers that current five have, Akbaruddin further added that,“they shall not exercise veto until a decision on matter has been taken during a review”.

India, Brazil, Germany and Japan constitute G4, which lobbies for Council reforms and they mutually support each other’s candidatures for the permanent seats on an expanded body.

G4 group had rejected suggestions to create a category of longer-term elected members of the Council as a ploy to block adding new permanent members.

Akbaruddin stated that 53 members of Asia-Pacific group of nations have only two elected seats on council, while 26-member Western Europe group also get two.

With inputs from Express