UNSC Reform — India's Push

The demand to remake a Security Council frozen in 1945 is India's longest-running diplomatic campaign, and in 2026 it moved. Speaking for the G4 (India, Brazil, Germany, Japan), India's UN envoy Harish Parvathaneni laid out a model to grow the Council from 15 to 25 or 26 seats, adding permanent members from the regions left out at the founding. In April the G4 blinked on its hardest point, offering to let new permanent members hold off on using the veto for 15 years. India, though, drew a firm line: it will not accept a second-class permanent seat without the veto, and it dismisses any reform that merely adds more elected members as no reform at all.