"Risk Oblivion If...": India's Stark Warning To UN Security Council

"We must push forward a reform heeding the voices of the young and future generations," Indian diplomat Ruchira Kamboj said.

India has stressed on the need for urgent reforms within the United Nations Security Council saying that the global body is otherwise heading towards "oblivion". Expressing frustration over prolonged discussions, India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ruchira Kamboj said nearly 25 years have passed since world leaders committed to comprehensive reforms at the Millennium Summit in 2000. #WATCH | At the UNGA, Permanent Representative of India to the UN, Ruchira Kamboj says, " Discussions on reform of the Security Council have been going on, as you well know, in earnest for well over a decade, since the early 1990s. In addition, world leaders at the Millennium… pic.twitter.com/qyHbJgTGAA

"Discussions on Security Council reforms have persisted earnestly for well over a decade since the early 1990s. The world and our future generations can no longer afford to wait. How much longer must they wait?" she said during an informal meeting on Security Council reforms.

Ms Kamboj urged concrete progress toward reforms, emphasizing the importance of heeding the voices of the younger generation and rectifying historical injustices, especially in Africa.