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India calls for UNSC expansion to make it more representative
United Nations, Oct 16: Attributing the failure to reach an agreement on military action against Iraq to the lack of balanced representation in the Security Council, India has called for its expansion to make it more representative and deal effectively with issues of war and peace.
United Nations, Oct 16: Attributing the failure to reach an agreement on military action against Iraq to the lack of balanced representation in the Security Council, India has called for its expansion to make it more representative and deal effectively with issues of war and peace.
"We can only attribute the inability of the Council to arrive at a collective and unified decisions on the major issues placed before it to lack of balanced representation in
its current composition," its deputy permanent representative to the United Nations A Gopinathan said.
India is among the member states who have strong claim for a permanent seat in the expanded Council which at present has 15 members including five permanent - the United States, Britain, Russia, France and China. If the Council is to represent "genuine multilateralism in its decisions and actions, he said it must reflect current world realities.
"Within UN, there is ample recognition of the need of organization and its architecture for maintenance of international peace and security to adapt to the needs and realities of the times," he told the 191-member United Nations General Assembly. Participating in the debate on the work of the Security Council, he pointed out that Secretary-General Kofi Annan had himself stressed the need for expansion of the Council to make it more representative of the UN membership if it has to regain confidence of the states and world opinion.
Bureau Report
India is among the member states who have strong claim for a permanent seat in the expanded Council which at present has 15 members including five permanent - the United States, Britain, Russia, France and China. If the Council is to represent "genuine multilateralism in its decisions and actions, he said it must reflect current world realities.
"Within UN, there is ample recognition of the need of organization and its architecture for maintenance of international peace and security to adapt to the needs and realities of the times," he told the 191-member United Nations General Assembly. Participating in the debate on the work of the Security Council, he pointed out that Secretary-General Kofi Annan had himself stressed the need for expansion of the Council to make it more representative of the UN membership if it has to regain confidence of the states and world opinion.
Bureau Report