United Nations: Calling the UN Security Council an "anachronism," Indian Parliament speaker Sumitra Mahajan has urged the international community to take early action to reform it in order to shore up the legitimacy of the world body itself.

"The Security Council is, undoubtedly, one of the most important institutions of global governance," Mahajan, speaker of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament, stated. "If its legitimacy is in doubt, then so would be the legitimacy of the United Nations. And, in fact, of the notion of global governance itself."