India's UNSC Seat

India has cautioned that reform of the UN Security Council will border on "failure" if only its non-permanent category of membership is expanded. India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni made these remarks on Monday while addressing the Inter-Governmental Negotiations (IGN) meeting on Security Council reforms. "UNSC reform would be grossly inadequate, bordering on failure, if expansion is limited only to the non-permanent category as it would fundamentally not change the decision making power-structure of the P5," Parvathaneni said. "Groups and member states have waited this long for real and meaningful reforms," he further added. Parvathaneni was addressing the meeting, with focus on the 'Elements Paper', a document that contains points of convergences and divergences of UN member states on reform of the powerful UN body. Parvathaneni stressed that by advocating expansion of the permanent category, India's consistent effort has been to bring in a

Slovakia backed India's bid for permanent membership in a "reformed" UN Security Council as the two countries elevated their ties to a Comprehensive Partnership during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's landmark visit to the Central European nation. In a joint statement issued after talks between Prime Minister Modi and his Slovak counterpart Robert Fico on Monday, the two sides underlined the need for comprehensive reforms of multilateral institutions, including the United Nations and the UNSC, to make them "more representative, inclusive and reflective of contemporary geopolitical realities". The two leaders stressed the urgent need to expand the Security Council in both permanent and non-permanent categories. "In this context, India appreciated Slovakia's continued support for India's permanent membership in a reformed and expanded United Nations Security Council," the joint statement said. Modi and Fico reaffirmed their commitment to multilateralism with the United Nations at its c

India has asserted that any reform of the United Nations Security Council not accompanied by expansion in the permanent category with veto would perpetuate existing imbalance and inequities in the UN organ. Addressing the Inter-Governmental Negotiations (IGN) meeting on Security Council reforms on Tuesday, India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish also noted that consideration of a new category, with or without veto, would "complicate" an already existing discussion that involves wide-ranging views. "There are two fundamental aspects that result in an imbalanced structure and lack of legitimacy and non-representativeness of the UN Security Council these are the membership; and veto. "There is broad agreement on the dire need to reform the UN Security Council. It is evident that a structure designed more than 80 years ago does not meet the requirements of the current geo-political realities," Harish said. The Indian envoy recalled that the sole refor

India told a Security Council meeting chaired by China that countries opposing expansion in the UN body's permanent membership are status quoists with a narrow focus and non-progressive approach, asserting that this can no longer be accepted. The Global South cannot continue to be short-changed. India and major players in other parts of the world deserve their due representation in the structures of the United Nations. As regards Security Council, this translates to permanent category membership," India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish said. Addressing the open debate in the Security Council on Practicing Multilateralism, Reforming and Improving Global Governance' held under China's Presidency of the 15-nation UN body, Harish further said that three fundamental principles are essential to the success of UNSC reforms. These he described to be increase in membership of both permanent and non-permanent categories; commencement of text based ...

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