India says UNSC should have 25 members

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India says UNSC should have 25 members

Apr 11, 2012

United Nations: India has said the 15-nation UN Security Council should be expanded to include about 10 more members, cautioning that delay in reforming the powerful world body will be at the international community’s “own peril”.

Participating in the 8th round of intergovernmental negotiations on UN Security Council reforms here, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Hardeep Singh Puri said India is of the view that reform and expansion of the Security Council are essential if it is to reflect contemporary reality.

A reformed UNSC, with expansion in the permanent and non-permanent categories, will enhance the Council’s credibility and effectiveness in dealing with global issues.

India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Puri, has outlined India's view that an expanded Council should have a total of 25-26 members. Getty Images

“We delay reform of the Security Council at our own peril…Early reform of the Council must be pursued with renewed vigour and urgently enacted,” Puri said yesterday.

Puri outlined India’s view that an expanded Council should have a total of 25-26 members.

He said structural reform of the Council should respond to the pressing need for credible improvements in the global governance architecture. “The clamour for such change is increasing by the day. Even as we speak concrete developments are being witnessed in other international institutions such as the IMF, World Bank,” he said.

There is emerging consensus that reform will be complete only when the question of the veto in all its aspects and manifestations is comprehensively addressed, he added.

Noting that considerable time has already been spent in exchanging views on how and when to start real negotiations, Puri said deliberations so far have shown that a large majority of the UN membership wants expansion of the Council in both the permanent and non-permanent categories

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[SinoChallenger]

but not including india okay

pakistan represents south asia

 

[SpArK]

+ut not including india okay

Absolutely.......... 20 members from China, and other from north korea, libya and countries of ur choice.

I agree with you fully.

 

[Abhishek_]

but not including india okay

pakistan represents south asia

in the same way you represent chinese IQ

(no offense to PK)

 

[harpoon]

Absolutely.......... 20 members from China, and other from north korea, libya and countries of ur choice.

I agree with you fully.

Where will the other 4 of the 'Big 5' will go.

 

[Aramsogo]

And Zimbabwe says UNSC should have 150 members.

YAAAAWWWN. ZZZZZzzzz

 

[IbnAlwaled]

I agree and the 25 should be permanent members. KSA included.

 

[SpArK]

Where will the other 4 of the 'Big 5' will go.

They can go to hell

UNSC is United Nations Supporting China.

 

[Nirvana]

but not including india okay

pakistan represents south asia

Just the same way Uganda rep Africa,Libya rep Middle east,Honolulu rep east Asia

Nonsense

I agree and the 25 should be permanent members. KSA included.

I think 9 permanent members and 16 Elected Members would be a great reform !!

G4 with P5 will form P9 - 9 Perm members of UN with Veto

 

[Lonely Hermit]

UNSC is a spine less body, which was formed after WW2 and should be scrapped completely.
I cant remember even a single instance when anything effective was done by UNSC.

It also does not represent the geopolitics of the modern world.
At the end of the day question comes why so few have right to hold so much power.

 

[Nirvana]

UNSC is a spine less body, which was formed after WW2 and should be scrapped completely.
I cant remember even a single instance when anything effective was done by UNSC.

It also does not represent the geopolitics of the modern world.
At the end of the day question comes why so few have right to hold so much power.

Yeah right !! reforms in UN will/can make it effective

that's what the world wants

 

[Korean]

No need to expand SC, just do away with damned veto. Then Syrian crisis would be over with a NATO airstrike, and Palestine would be a sovereign state by now. And Tibet and Turkestan finally get their UN recognition.

 

[Jade]

IMO, India doesn't want 25 permanent members. It wants the Security Council to be 25.

The only new countries that can to be permanent members in SC are India, Japan and Germany

 

[Nirvana]

IMO, India doesn't want 25 permanent members. It wants the Security Council to be 25.

The only new countries that can to be permanent members in SC are India, Japan and Germany

Brazil can't be ignored either

 

[Jade]

No need to expand SC, just do away with damned veto. Then Syrian crisis would be over with a NATO airstrike, and Palestine would be a sovereign state by now. And Tibet and Turkestan finally get their UN recognition.

Anyway veto is powerless before big countries such as India or Germany. India give a $hit want UNSC wants.