NEW DELHI, July 7 (Xinhuanet) -- The G-4 countries are unwilling to accept US arguments for a smaller UN Security Council and will drum up maximum support for their draft resolution on reforms that was formally presented to the United Nations on Thursday, Indo-Asian News Service reported.

    "There is nearly a four-fold increase in UN membership from the time when the UN was formed 60 years ago. Now there are 191 members. Why should we have just two more permanent Security Council members as the US is insisting? " Indian External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh said. He is going to attend the meeting of G-4 foreign ministers in London Friday.

    The G-4 countries -- India, Brazil, Germany and Japan -- are pushing for a debate early next week on the proposal that was presented to the UN General Assembly Secretariat on Thursday.

    The resolution requires 128 votes to sail through the 191-nation General Assembly.

    The G-4 resolution seeks an addition of six permanent members and four non-permanent members to the Security Council.

    The United States said that such a large body will impinge on its effectiveness. Instead, it supports two or so permanent members - Japan and another country it has not named yet - and two to three non-permanent members.

    Singh will meet his G-4 counterparts -- Joschka Fischer of Germany, Nobutaka Machimura of Japan and Celso Amorim of Brazil- -in London to take stock of the situation and fine-tune their strategy in the light of the crucial summits of the African Union and the Caribbean Community (Caricom) that ended recently.

    The quartet will meet on the sidelines of the G-8 summit of industrialized countries being held at the Scottish resort of Gleneagles. Enditem