4 The consultations centered on the following aspects of Security Council reform: a) The question of the veto; b) The size of enlargement of the Council; c) The categories of membership; d) Regional representation and individual state membership; e) The respective mandates of the Task Force set up by the President of the General Assembly and that of the Open-ended Working Group; f) The proposed intermediary approach and its review mechanism; g) Modalities for the envisaged intergovernmental negotiations. 5. Meanwhile, during the reporting period, continued dynamism around the question of Security Council Reform was sustained. The President of the General Assembly encouraged the members to intensify efforts towards identifying a framework and negotiables for the intergovernmental negotiations, in order to promote the process. Further to this the following emerged: a) A group of countries, namely, Cyprus, Malaysia, Netherlands, Romania, and the UK, and led by Germany, in a letter dated 20th March 2008, proposed an overarching process, the stated objective of which was to reflect elements that required negotiations, on the basis of pragmatism and feasibility, building on the report of the two facilitators and other progress achieved during the 61st session of the General Assembly and to give a sense of direction for the future. b) The Resolution No. 11/11-P(IS) adopted by the Organisation of the Islamic Conference at its 11th Summit held in March 2008 in Dakar, Senegal, in which it stated that SCR must give adequate representation to Islamic countries, and that anything else would be unacceptable. c) The letter of the African Group to the PGA dated 20th March 2008 urging him to convene a meeting of the Open-ended Working Group as indicated in his previous communication, to enable the membership of the United Nations to address both the framework and modalities that could lead to intergovernmental negotiation taking into account the positions and aspiration of various stakeholders, and which could lead to the widest possible agreement. d) The letter dated 3rd April 2008 from the “Uniting for Consensus” group of states to the PGA, in which they, among other things, argued that agreement