India's Big Step Forward in Bid for UN Security Council

[Sai Jai]

New Delhi: India's bid to become a
permanent member of the United
Nations Security Council has made big
progress, with China forced to fall in
line - for now, that is.
The nearly 200 member countries of
the United Nations have agreed that
over the next year, they will negotiate
the wording of a document that will
call for reforming the Security Council,
the top decision-making body, which
has 15 members. Of these, five,
including China, Russia and the US, are
permanent.
For the first time, different countries
have submitted written suggestions
for what the resolution should state.
In what was seen as an attempt to
thwart India's bid, the US, China and
Russia did not participate in that
exercise.
China has been strongly opposing the
expansion of the Security Council;
tonight,

 

[Sai Jai]

it reportedly wanted to force a
vote on whether the UN should
proceed with a one-year discussion on
how the reform should be framed, but
failed to muster enough support. If a
vote had been called, India would have
been forced to get other countries on
board to support the extended
negotiations.
While the US and Russia have verbally
backed India's membership, neither
has put that down in writing.
The draft resolution calls for next
year's UN agenda to discuss the
"Question of equitable representation
on and increase in the membership of
the Security Council." Once the draft is
agreed on, it will be put to vote at the
General Assembly, where a two-thirds
vote is needed to clear it.
Ahead of the UN's 70th anniversary in
October, the PM has, on foreign trips
and in bilaterals with the heads of
other countries, strongly lobbied for
support for a permanent seat on the
Security Council for India. SOURCE

 

[Sai Jai]

My best wishes and Gud luck,All the best to our country INDIA -JaiHind .... :CLAP:CLAP:HS:HS:LUV:LUV:OHYA:OHYA:TUP:TUP:WIN:WIN:WIN

 

[Rushil]

Best wishes to India from my side too :luv

Jai Hind :clap :clap

 

[amarnathkvk]

My best wishes for India

 

[Vicky]

Best wishes from my side alsohyahya:luv:luvtup

 

[Sarkar]

5 Permanent members wouldn't allow expansion of UNSC and India's membership angry

 

[Sai Jai]

5 Permanent members wouldn't allow expansion of UNSC and India's membership angry

yup thats for sure .... But we will overcome those

 

[iSK]

My Best Wishes For India :k

 

[Rahulan Raj]

I won't think China & Russia allow this to happen.
But we need someone to represent South Asia :dodgy