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UNSC Non Permanent Seats
UN Security Council is one of six principal organ of UN. It has the primary responsibility in maintaining international peace and security. It consists of 5 permanent and 10 non-permanent members.
Election to five non-permanent seats at the UN Security Council for 2021-22 is to be held. India is standing unopposed as the nominee for the Asia-Pacific seat, and needs two-thirds of UNGA members, or 129 votes, to be confirmed.
The UNGA election process will be done by “secret ballot”.
India had highlighted its commitment to multilateralism; demand for transparency in mandates for UN peacekeeping missions; push for the Indian-led Comprehensive Convention for International Terrorism (CCIT); and joint efforts for UN reform and the expansion of the UNSC.
India has been at the forefront of pushing for speeding up reforms of the 15-nation Security Council, asserting that an “obsolescent” global governance structure cannot be fit for the purpose to address the challenges of peace and security in the 21st century.
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India and the other G-4 nations of Brazil, Japan and Germany have said that procrastinating on reform of the Security Council has lasted decades and change is long overdue.
India has been seeking a structured format of a single document that can be negotiated, one issue at a time
While “United for Consensus” grouping that includes Pakistan, oppose the G4 position of expansion of the permanent members of the UNSC and push for more non permanent or “elected seats”.
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