23 January 2009

The Open-ended Working Group on Security Council Reform met on Monday, 19 January 2009, to discuss what kind of modalities would be used during the upcoming intergovernmental negotiations slated to begin in an informal plenary of the General Assembly no later than 28 February.

20 November 2008
“We now come face to face with concrete proposals that will enable us to reassert the Assembly’s responsibilities as the chief deliberative, policy-making and representative organ of the United Nations in the months ahead.

by Jonas von Freiesleben
16 December 2008

The following analysis provides an update to chapter 3 on System-wide Coherence in “Managing Change at the United Nations,” and covers events pertaining to this issue during the 62nd General Assembly session, as well as a look ahead at what might come.

8 December 2008

The Open-ended Working Group on Security Council reform met on Friday in the first of three scheduled meetings on the framework and modalities of the upcoming intergovernmental negotiations. Some 30 Member States spoke during the meeting, with a portion arguing that framework and modalities had to be agreed upon before embarking on further negotiations, while others claimed that the rules of procedure of the General Assembly would suffice as a general framework.

by Emanuel Evans
8 December 2008

Member States are in the process of discussing the framework and modalities of the upcoming intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council Reform. In this regard, the Center for UN Reform Educations has produced a chart outlining Member States' positions on Security Council reform.