United Nations Security Council: Britain and France have got support for India’s permanent membership in the United Nations Security Council. Britain and France, the two permanent members who have veto power in the Security Council, have reiterated their support for India’s permanent membership. France supports the candidatures of Germany, Brazil, India and Japan as permanent members. Apart from this, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has also advocated India for permanent membership.
Dame Barbara Woodward, Britain’s Permanent Representative to the UN, said, “As others have said, the Security Council should have more world representatives and the UK has long spoken of expanding it in both permanent and non-permanent categories.” Somewhere.”
France and Britain supported India
Ambassador Nicolas de Riviere, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations, said, “We support the expansion of the Security Council taking into account the emergence of new forces with which the world faces and the capacity to assume responsibility for a permanent presence in the Security Council France thus supports the candidatures of Germany, Brazil, India and Japan as permanent members.”
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What did S Jaishankar say?
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar while presiding over the high-level ministerial signing programs of India’s ongoing presidency of the UN Security Council on Wednesday stressed the need for reforms in the UN. He said that the debate on reforms has become directionless. On the challenge of terrorism, he said, “Even though the world is coming together with a more collective response, multilateral forums are being misused to justify and protect the perpetrators.” S Jaishankar’s reference was towards China and Pakistan.
China has been becoming a hindrance
Significantly, India has been campaigning for a long time to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, but success has not been achieved so far. China has always remained the biggest obstacle on India’s efforts. While the remaining four permanent member countries have advocated India on this issue. Earlier, America and Russia had also spoken in support of making India a permanent member of the Council.
role of the united nations security council
Incidentally, India is presiding over the UN Security Council for the month of December 2022. The United Nations Security Council is the principal global body for maintaining international peace and security. It is the principal organ of the United Nations, which has the authority to enforce binding obligations on the 193 member states of the UN to maintain peace. The council’s five permanent and ten elected members meet regularly to assess threats to international security, including civil wars, natural disasters, arms proliferation and terrorism.
Who among the five permanent members?
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is made up of 15 members, including the five permanent member states – China, France, Russia, the US and the UK. Apart from this, there are 10 non-permanent member countries, which are elected by the United Nations General Assembly. Structurally, the Council has not changed significantly since its formation in 1946. There has been a debate among member countries about the need for reforms.
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