The Foreign Ministers of G4 countries met on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Thursday to discuss the prospects for reforms of the UN Security Council, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Saturday.
Amid talk of Islamic representation, India and other G4 members have rejected proposals to allocate seats on the basis of religion in a reformed Security Council.
India's Permanent Representative TS Tirumurti declared, "IGN can no longer be used as a smokescreen today with this amended rollover decision."
The development comes as the world is still struggling to contain the COVID-19 pandemic that originated in China's Wuhan city last December.
