UNITED NATIONS, July 15: Foreign Ministers of G4, Japan, Germany, India and Brazil, are expected to arrive in New York on Sunday in a last ditch effort to enlist support of the 53-member African Union to salvage their resolution which will give them permanent seats on the expanded UN Security Council.

The ministers would hold talks on Sunday afternoon at the Indian mission to the United Nations ahead of the debate on African Union’s resolution which will be formally tabled on Monday before a vote is called at the end of next week, diplomats here told Dawn .

India’s Ambassador to the UN, Nirupan Sen, confirmed that the G-4 foreign ministers would meet at the Indian mission in a bid to work out a deal with the African Union for their vote on their resolution.

Cracks appeared in the African Union on Thursday as Nigeria’s foreign minister broke ranks with the Arab group within the Union saying that a deal with G-4 was possible over their resolution which though similar with G-4 proposals calls for an extra seat for the Africans in the non-permanent category of the council.

Nigerian foreign minister Oluyemi Adeniji’s comments exposed a sharp public rift between some African nations and Algeria, whose UN ambassador, Abdallah Baali, took the floor of the General Assembly on Tuesday and angrily said Africa would not compromise on its vision for council reform.