India, June 17 -- India has cautioned that reform of the UN Security Council will border on "failure" if only its non-permanent category of membership is expanded.

India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni made these remarks while addressing the Inter-Governmental Negotiations (IGN) meeting on Security Council reforms.

"UNSC reform would be grossly inadequate, bordering on failure, if expansion is limited only to the non-permanent category as it would fundamentally not change the decision-making power-structure of the P5," Parvathaneni said. "Groups and member states have waited this long for real and meaningful reforms," he further added. Parvathaneni was addressing the meeting, with focus on the 'Elemen...