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Pace of UNSC reform ‘very frustrating’: Council president

Pace of UNSC reform ‘very frustrating’: Council president

United Nations, July 4 (IANS) UN Security Council President Barbara Woodward has said that the pace of the Council reform process has been “very frustrating” and that her country backs moving on to text-based negotiations. Woodward, who is Britain's permanent representative and assumed the rotating presidency for this month, said on Monday, “I recognise that it has been a very frustrating process." “We too thought it would be useful actually to move to text-based negotiations, but I'm afraid we didn't," she said. “There wasn't enough support for that to make immediate progress." The reform process which is known as Intergovernmental…
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