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India asks UN to strengthen peackeeping process
Demanding strengthening of meaningful consultations between the Security Council and countries contributing troops to the peacekeeping operations, India has sharply criticised the permanent members of the UN Security Council for continuing to `block and frustrate` the will of the majority.
Demanding strengthening of meaningful consultations between the Security Council and countries contributing troops to the peacekeeping operations, India has sharply criticised the permanent members of the UN Security Council for continuing to "block and frustrate" the will of the majority.
The Council has to shed its "myopic vision" and contribute "meaningfully" towards strengthening the process of peacekeeping, India's representative Y K Sinha said addressing the Special Political Committee on peacekeeping operations.
In a veiled attack against the five permanent members - the US, Britain, France, Russia and China - Sinha alleged that most of the countries entrusted with the responsibility for maintenance of peace and security do not contribute troops to peacekeeping missions "(They should) at least support a culture of consultations with Troop Contributing Countries (TCCs) which contributes meaningfully to the decision-making process that has a direct impact on the lives of troops serving the United Nations," he said.
Sinha warned this "anomaly" could lead to disenchantment of troop contributors and leave the Council "little else but the holding of mostly pointless thematic debates."
However, Sinha praised France for its support to proposals for a new mechanism of consultations with TCCs. Strengthening the triangular partnership between the Security Council, TCCs and the secretariat is an issue of "crucial importance", he told the committee.
"If the lessons of past failure have to be incorporated to prevent their recurrence, then its imperative that a genuine and meaningful partnership is realised," he said. Mere strengthening the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping would not suffice if the "crucial lessons of the past are ignored," he warned.
India, Sinha said, had participated in 35 out of 58 peacekeeping missions, including some of the most difficult in Africa. "UN peacekeeping is an instrument that we have helped in constructing. We want to see it serve, and serve better, the collective purpose for which it was created, not undermined by a lack of fund, subverted by false doctrines, wasted on narrow ends and diverted to serve other agendas," Sinha told the committee.
More than 58,000 Indian peacekeepers have participated in various operations and over one hundred have laid down their lives in the cause of the world peace.
Bureau Report
The Council has to shed its "myopic vision" and contribute "meaningfully" towards strengthening the process of peacekeeping, India's representative Y K Sinha said addressing the Special Political Committee on peacekeeping operations.
In a veiled attack against the five permanent members - the US, Britain, France, Russia and China - Sinha alleged that most of the countries entrusted with the responsibility for maintenance of peace and security do not contribute troops to peacekeeping missions "(They should) at least support a culture of consultations with Troop Contributing Countries (TCCs) which contributes meaningfully to the decision-making process that has a direct impact on the lives of troops serving the United Nations," he said.
Sinha warned this "anomaly" could lead to disenchantment of troop contributors and leave the Council "little else but the holding of mostly pointless thematic debates."
However, Sinha praised France for its support to proposals for a new mechanism of consultations with TCCs. Strengthening the triangular partnership between the Security Council, TCCs and the secretariat is an issue of "crucial importance", he told the committee.
"If the lessons of past failure have to be incorporated to prevent their recurrence, then its imperative that a genuine and meaningful partnership is realised," he said. Mere strengthening the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping would not suffice if the "crucial lessons of the past are ignored," he warned.
India, Sinha said, had participated in 35 out of 58 peacekeeping missions, including some of the most difficult in Africa. "UN peacekeeping is an instrument that we have helped in constructing. We want to see it serve, and serve better, the collective purpose for which it was created, not undermined by a lack of fund, subverted by false doctrines, wasted on narrow ends and diverted to serve other agendas," Sinha told the committee.
More than 58,000 Indian peacekeepers have participated in various operations and over one hundred have laid down their lives in the cause of the world peace.
Bureau Report