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IMPLEMENTATION OF MANDATE
4. Pursuant to the above mandate, the Committee of Ten Permanent Representatives
in New York, (C10 PR), working on behalf of their Heads of State and Governments,
engaged with UN member states, the African Group of the Whole and other regional
groups, groupings of concerned UN member states, and with the President of the
General Assembly (PGA) and the entities he established to facilitate the Security
Council reform process. Specifically, the stake holders engaged were:
a) The Permanent Members of the Security Council (P5) - China, France,
Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States;
b) The Group of 4 (G4) – Brazil, India, Germany and Japan;
c) The Uniting for Consensus Group (UFC) - Argentina, Canada, Colombia,
Italy, Mexico, Republic of Korea, Pakistan, Spain, San Marino and Turkey and
others;
d) The Small Five (S5) - Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Costa Rica, Singapore,
Jordan;
e) The President of the General Assembly (PGA) ;
f) Task Force set up by the PGA, comprising the Permanent Representatives of
Bangladesh, Chile, Liechtenstein and Djibouti;
g) Open-Ended Working Group on the Question of Equitable Representation on,
and increase in the Membership of the Security Council and Other Matters
Related to the Security Council (OEWG).
The Objectives of the discussions included the following:
a) To promote understanding of and support for the African Common Position;
b) To identify areas of convergence and divergence between the African
Common Position and those of other member states and groupings involved in
the process;
c) To gather the views of other stakeholders in the reform process on the way
forward;