{"id":207609,"date":"2022-09-24T19:36:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T14:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=207609"},"modified":"2022-11-02T15:54:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T10:24:43","slug":"g4-countries-highlight-urgent-need-for-reform-in-the-u-n-security-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/g4-countries-highlight-urgent-need-for-reform-in-the-u-n-security-council\/","title":{"rendered":"G4 countries highlight \u2018urgent need\u2019 for reform in the U.N. Security Council"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cG4 countries highlight \u2018urgent need\u2019 for reform in the U.N. Security Council\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 24th September 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s External Affairs Minister met with his counterparts from Germany, Brazil and Japan under The Group of Four(G4) banner.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the Group of Four(G4)?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Group of Four(G4)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was formed in 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The group is primarily focused on U.N Security Council (UNSC) reform and permanent membership of the body for G4 members among others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Members of G4: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Germany, Brazil and Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the Uniting<\/b><b> for Consensus(UFC) group?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Uniting for Consensus(UFC) group <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nicknamed the Coffee Club <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is an informal club that developed at the UN in the 1990s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The group developed in opposition to the possible expansion of permanent seats in the United Nations Security Council.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under the leadership of Italy, the group aims to counter the bids for permanent seats proposed by G4 nations and is calling for a consensus before any decision is reached on the form and size of the Security Council.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the members of the group <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">include \u2013 Italy, Spain, Malta, San Marino, Pakistan, South Korea, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia &amp; Turkey.<\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cG4 countries highlight \u2018urgent need\u2019 for reform in the U.N. Security Council\u201d published in The Hindu on 24th September 2022. What is the News? India\u2019s External Affairs Minister met with his counterparts from Germany, Brazil and Japan under The Group of Four(G4) banner. What is the Group&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/g4-countries-highlight-urgent-need-for-reform-in-the-u-n-security-council\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">G4 countries highlight \u2018urgent need\u2019 for reform in the U.N. Security Council<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,1236,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-207609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-international-organisations","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701411920},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}