Every Nation Should Negotiate on UNSC Reform Text: India

He added that in cases of negotiations on Security Council reforms, there are procedures which the countries have already agreed to on how to take decisions on issues about which there are convergent or divergent views.

He also underscored that the UNGA decision has a "direct impact" on the 2030 Sustainable Development agenda that will be adopted by world leaders later this month.

"You cannot delink the world in which we live, which is being marked by so many crises, from the implementation of the agenda," he said.

India has been a leading voice in the UN to commencing the process of Security Council reform on the basis of a negotiating text.

In a statement after the adoption, Mukerji had said "this is the first time in the history of the Inter-Governmental Negotiation process that a decision on UNSC reform has been adopted through an official formal L Document of the UNGA.

"This is a most positive and unique development, as so far, over the last 7 years we have only been making statements in the air, or at each other, with easily deniable or disputable summaries, or at times compilation text(s), to register our endeavours."