India Permanent Member At Unsc

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday backed India's bid for a permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), days after US President Joe Biden and France's Emmanuel Macron made a similar pitch.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar reaffirmed that India is exerting pressure to become a permanent UNSC member.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday reiterated that India will get a permanent member seat at the United Nations Security Council and this would happen faster if the country has a Prime Minister to whom no one can say 'no'.

The Security Council has progressively been unable to take decisions in recent years to strengthen global peace and security, UN General Assembly President Dennis Francis said at a media briefing.

France and the United Kingdom, two veto-wielding permanent members of the Security Council, reiterated their support for a permanent seat for India at the powerful horse-shoe table.

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Tuesday said his government will back the bids of India and Japan for permanent member status at the UN Security Council.

Extending his support for a permanent seat for India at the United Nations, Ambassador of France to India Emmanuel Lenain welcomed an Indian delegation for the UN consultations that took place in Paris on Tuesday.

India's performance as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council indicates that the world needs India to be at the horseshoe table permanently, the country's envoy to the United Nations TS Tirumurti has said.

China on Friday gave a lukewarm response to India's election as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, saying as a permanent member, it would like to enhance cooperation with all the newly-elected members of the top organ of the UN.

Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa today said his country fully supported India's bid for permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).

India on Friday said that the country's national position was and remains that matters related to Kashmir are "entirely an internal matter", after a rare closed-door meeting at the United Nations Security Council to discuss New Delhi's move to end the special status of Jammu and Kashmir.

France has reiterated its support for India as the permanent member of the powerful UN Security Council, saying the UNSC's enlargement is the "first crucial part" towards its reform.

In the absence of long-due reform and expansion of its permanent and non-permanent members, the UN Security Council remains "dysfunctional" as it no longer reflects contemporary realities and confronts a crisis of "legitimacy and credibility", India has said.

China has reacted with caution to a new step proposed by India to help it become a permanent member of the powerful United Nations Security Council. Last week, India said that it was willing, in exchange for induction, to surrender the important veto right that permanent members are entitled to.

To win permanent membership of the UN Security Council, India has offered to forgo veto power initially as a bargaining chip to get the reform process moving. "The issue of veto is important, but we should not allow it to have a veto over the process of Council reform itself," India's Permanent Representative at the UN, Syed Akbaruddin, said on Tue...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday backed India's bid for a permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), days after US President Joe Biden and France's Emmanuel Macron made a similar pitch.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar reaffirmed that India is exerting pressure to become a permanent UNSC member.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday reiterated that India will get a permanent member seat at the United Nations Security Council and this would happen faster if the country has a Prime Minister to whom no one can say 'no'.

The Security Council has progressively been unable to take decisions in recent years to strengthen global peace and security, UN General Assembly President Dennis Francis said at a media briefing.

France and the United Kingdom, two veto-wielding permanent members of the Security Council, reiterated their support for a permanent seat for India at the powerful horse-shoe table.

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Tuesday said his government will back the bids of India and Japan for permanent member status at the UN Security Council.

Extending his support for a permanent seat for India at the United Nations, Ambassador of France to India Emmanuel Lenain welcomed an Indian delegation for the UN consultations that took place in Paris on Tuesday.

India's performance as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council indicates that the world needs India to be at the horseshoe table permanently, the country's envoy to the United Nations TS Tirumurti has said.

China on Friday gave a lukewarm response to India's election as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, saying as a permanent member, it would like to enhance cooperation with all the newly-elected members of the top organ of the UN.

Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa today said his country fully supported India's bid for permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).

India on Friday said that the country's national position was and remains that matters related to Kashmir are "entirely an internal matter", after a rare closed-door meeting at the United Nations Security Council to discuss New Delhi's move to end the special status of Jammu and Kashmir.

France has reiterated its support for India as the permanent member of the powerful UN Security Council, saying the UNSC's enlargement is the "first crucial part" towards its reform.

In the absence of long-due reform and expansion of its permanent and non-permanent members, the UN Security Council remains "dysfunctional" as it no longer reflects contemporary realities and confronts a crisis of "legitimacy and credibility", India has said.

China has reacted with caution to a new step proposed by India to help it become a permanent member of the powerful United Nations Security Council. Last week, India said that it was willing, in exchange for induction, to surrender the important veto right that permanent members are entitled to.

To win permanent membership of the UN Security Council, India has offered to forgo veto power initially as a bargaining chip to get the reform process moving. "The issue of veto is important, but we should not allow it to have a veto over the process of Council reform itself," India's Permanent Representative at the UN, Syed Akbaruddin, said on Tue...