Overview
- Pakistan, speaking during Tuesday's Intergovernmental Negotiations on the veto, urged abolishing or strictly curbing the veto and rejected adding any new permanent members.
- India said real reform requires expanding the permanent category with veto and warned that creating a new membership class would slow and complicate the process.
- The Italy–Pakistan-led Uniting for Consensus bloc pushed alternatives to new permanent seats, including more elected members with longer terms and support for General Assembly debates after vetoes.
- India cited weak results from a 2022 General Assembly measure meant to spotlight vetoes, noting 24 vetoes on 20 drafts since then and seven vetoes in 2024, the most since 1986.
- The reform track known as IGN has run since 2009 without consensus, and any formal limits on the veto would require a Charter change that veto holders could block, leaving gridlock that critics say sustains Council paralysis on crises.