At the United Nations General Assembly, four Central European nations — Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and Czechia — formally endorsed India's bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, marking the first ministerial meeting between India and the Visegrád Group as a unified diplomatic bloc. The endorsement, delivered by Slovakia's foreign minister on behalf of all four nations, recognized India as both a leader of the Global South and an emerging Indo-Pacific power whose global weight has outgrown the architecture designed to contain it. In the long arc of multilateral reform, this moment