Quad states favor expansion in U.N. Security Council permanent seats

Foreign ministers from Japan, the United States, Australia and India were committed Friday to advancing United Nations reform including an increase in permanent seats on its Security Council, as the world body faces challenges amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.The foreign ministers of the four major Indo-Pacific democracies in the so-called Quad group also underscored the need to "address attempts to unilaterally subvert the international and multilateral system" including the workings of the United Nations, according to a document issued after their meeting in New York.The gathering took p…READ FULL ARTICLE