UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan called for equitable representation on the UN Security Council (UNSC) again by adding more elected seats to the top UN body.

Speaking at the Intergovernmental Negotiations on Security Council reform, Pakistan`s Ambassador to the UN Maleeha Lodhi said that equitable `representation` had been the primary impulse behind all Security Council reform efforts and its importance could not be over-stated, according to a press release.

`In 1945, the Security Council represented 20 per cent of the membership of the UN, today, it represents 8pc of the membership, she assened, adding that nearly a third of the membership had never served on the council.

Criticising the `Group of Four` position, who seek permanent seats in the 15-member council, Ambassador Lodhi said: `Without prejudice to the Common African Position for representation on behalf of an entire region, we are at a loss to understand how proposals that seek to promote the national aspirations of some member states can enhance the representative nature of the Security Council when the region in question has neither bestowed that privilege on them nor does it enjoy the right to hold them to account.

On the other hand, she said, it was the non-permanent category where the elements of equitable representation were embedded; elections and geographical distribution in Article 23(1) and a specific term with rotation in Anicle 23(2). `Separate these two adicles and the concept of representation goes out of the window,` she said.