Increasing conflicts show need for UNSC reform: India

India today said "inability" of the UN Security Council to prevent emergence of conflicts in various parts of the globe including in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan has underlined the need for its urgent reform.
In an address at the Plenary of the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, India's representative Ambassador Rahul Kulshreshth also said there was a need to have distinction between migrants, refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) as they are governed by different international laws.
"One cannot but take account of the root causes for the ongoing humanitarian emergencies - which are deeply embedded in the recent conflicts in countries such as Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and Syria.

"Evidently, the inability of the UN Security Council in preventing the emergence of these grave conflict situations is rather obvious. This also points starkly to the need for urgent reform of the UN Security Council," he said.
India has been strongly pushing for reform of the UN Security Council and getting its permanent membership.
On addressing the problem of refugees, Kulshreshth said India has been generally supportive of the principles of burden sharing and solidarity in respect of refugees.

"We believe that responsibility sharing should be based on agreed principles of CBDR (Common But Differentiated Responsibilities) and not equitable responsibility sharing.

"We are also concerned at voices seeking to divert resources away from development programmes, which will have a deleterious effect on developing countries," he said.
The Indian representative said the principles of charter of the United Nations needs to be preserved as World Humanitarian Summit embarks on trying to define a new international humanitarian architecture.
"With an annual deficit in humanitarian assistance of USD 15 billion, the need for more effective and streamlined UN humanitarian structures and finding additional sources of funding, is rather urgent," he said.