India, Oct. 23 -- India has launched a strong pitch for reforming the United Nations Security Council, warning that its failure to reflect contemporary global realities is undermining its legitimacy and ability to deliver peace.

Addressing the UN general assembly on 'question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of security council', India's permanent representative to the UN ambassador Harish Parvathaneni on Thursday said, that eight decade after the UN's founding, the security council continues to struggle with some of the world's "gravest" conflicts.

"The cost is already visible. Eighty years on, the organisation is struggling to deliver peace and reconciliation in some of the gravest conflicts before the cou...