UN General Assembly
2010

body of the United Nations, continue to grow, and we believe that the authority of the General Assembly must be simultaneously enhanced to assume the growing mandate entrusted to it. We therefore appreciate the progress made by the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the General Assembly, where a number of key issues have been highlighted, especially the strengthening of the Office of the President of the General Assembly. We are confident that, with the political determination of Member States, those deliberations will result in a stronger United Nations. We are encouraged that, in the past year, the five rounds of intergovernmental negotiations on the question of equitable representation in and larger membership of the Security Council and other matters related to the Council, held under the chairmanship of Ambassador Zahir Tanin of Afghanistan, is making good progress. My delegation supports the expansion of both the permanent and the non-permanent membership of the Security Council to reflect the contemporary realities and make it a more representative body. We believe that India, Japan,