Foreign ministers of Germany, Brazil, India and Japan - known as the G4 - are coming to New York to meet with African Union envoys Sunday to forge a common position on reforming the powerful U.N. Security Council, dpa reported diplomats as saying on Friday. The meeting in New York will signal a new level of efforts to work out differences in proposals to reform the current 15-nation council and build up support among the 191 U.N. members. Neither side appears to have the necessary two-thirds majority vote, or 128 votes, in the U.N. General Assembly to push through their competing draft resolutions under discussion in the assembly, dpa reported. Foreign Ministers Joschka Fischer of Germany, Nobutaka Machimura of Japan, Celso Amorin of Brazil and Natwar Singh of India are to meet first with General Assembly President Jean Ping on Sunday morning at U.N. headquarters in New York. Ping is leading talks for reforming the 60-year-old United Nations. The foreign ministers then will meet with envoys from the African Union for a working lunch hosted by the Indian Mission to the United Nations, German and Japanese diplomats said. --More 2350 Local Time 2050 GMT
