India requires higher transparency in functioning of UNSC subsidiary organs

India has known as for “higher transparency” within the functioning of the subsidiary organs of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), citing the “obscure” method wherein requests to designate entities and people are rejected.

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Addressing the UNSC open debate on Working Methods on Friday (November 14, 2025), India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish stated the Security Council is central within the UN structure because the principal organ that’s primarily tasked with the duty of upkeep of worldwide peace and safety.

“As a UN organ whose sphere of capabilities covers a variety of areas, however membership restricted to solely 15 members, working strategies of the Security Council are crucial to its credibility, efficacy, effectivity and transparency. This good points specific salience in a world beset with a number of crises and going through quite a few challenges,” Mr. Harish added.

He underscored the necessity for higher transparency within the functioning of the subsidiary organs. “A living proof is the style wherein itemizing requests are rejected. Unlike de-listing choices, these are achieved in a quite obscure method, with member states that aren’t on the Council not being aware of particulars,” he stated.

Mr. Harish additionally identified that chairs and pen-holderships of the Council’s committees and subsidiary organs are privileges that include main duties. “Discussions within the Council on distribution of chairs and pen-holderships should stop Council members with vested pursuits from being accorded these privileges. Obvious and outright conflicts of curiosity can don’t have any place within the Council,” he stated.

Calling for reform of the highly effective 15-nation UN organ, Mr. Harish stated “the general endeavour must be on redesigning the eight-decade-old structure to make the United Nations Security Council fit-for-purpose, geared up to fulfill the continuing and future challenges and discharge its capabilities purposefully.” He confused the growth in each everlasting and non-permanent classes of the Council membership with ample illustration for under-represented and non-represented geographies, via text-based negotiations in a time-bound method.

India additionally known as for higher coordination of the Council with different UN organs, notably the General Assembly (GA).

“A great tool on this regard is the dialogue of the annual United Nations Security Council report in GA. However, this should not be handled as a mere procedural train. The report should be greater than a file of the Council proceedings and conferences through the yr,” he stated.

“Matters on which the Council is seized are additionally to be reviewed on occasion based mostly on their relevance and utility,” he stated. India reiterated its name to make the annual United Nations Security Council report analytical in nature.

On peacekeeping, Mr. Harish stated that as the most important cumulative troop contributor, India stresses on the necessity for factoring within the inputs of the Troop Contributing Countries and Police Contributing Countries for higher implementation of peacekeeping mandates.  “Continuation of mandates which have outlived their utility for slender political pursuits of sure states should not be allowed. This continued existence in a resource-constrained state of affairs is a drain on the UN and member states,” he stated.

At a time when member states are striving for higher streamlining and higher rationalisation beneath the UN80 framework, Harish urged the Council to undertake crucial measures on this entrance to result in sundown clauses.