UN General Assembly
2005

world order in which decisions are optimal and therefore acceptable, and the use of force minimal. Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister, aptly stated: “Above all, we have to participate in the growing structure of a world order. We cannot rely on others to do it on our behalf.” One cannot argue in favour of democracy in the rest of the world and leave the Security Council undemocratic. Effectiveness is a function of right decisions with broad support. Negotiations on the outcome document and many subsequent statements have demonstrated that, if more could not be achieved on the development aspects of trade in the document, it is because the Security Council has not been made representative. If institutional reform has been faltering and many are 28 doubtful of securing a just solution, it is because the Security Council does not reflect the world of today. It reflects the world of 1945. The unsatisfactory progress on other issues shows that critics of Security Council expansion in both the categories were profoundly mistaken. Security Council reform, far from hindering progress, was actually