The Permanent Security Council Membership Is India’s Right And Not As “ KHAIRAT “ From Anyone
There was a hilarious statement from Pakistan on Friday that has rejected as “totally baseless” the media reports that foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in his meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave an assurance on India’s bid for permanent membership of the UNSC.
Certainly when time comes India will take its seat at the Security Council as a Permanent Member as its RIGHT. USA or for that matter any other country will have no control over the issue. Otherwise Soon the UN without India as a permanent member of the Security Council will become a non entity.
India has been at the forefront of the years-long efforts to reform the Security Council saying it deserves a place as a permanent member of the Council, which in its current form does not represent the geo-political realities of the 21st Century.
“I understand you are referring to some rumours and speculative reporting about Pakistan’s position on the Indian bid for permanent membership of the UN Security Council. Let me tell you this is totally baseless, absolute fiction. We categorically reject any such statement that is being wrongly attributed to the Foreign Minister,” he said. Ahmed said Pakistan’s position on the reform of the UN Security Council was clear, consistent and unambiguous and together with its other partners in the Uniting for Consensus (UfC) Group, the country was opposed, in principle, to any expansion in the permanent membership of the Security Council.
“There is no change whatsoever in that policy. Pakistan supports a comprehensive reform of the Security Council that would make the Council more democratic, more representative, more transparent, effective, and more accountable to the wider membership of the United Nations,” he said.
Ahmed said Pakistan would support a reformed Council that corresponds to the interests of the large majority of member states and not just a few, and any expansion in the permanent category of membership does not conform to these principles of reform.
“We believe that expansion in the non-permanent category with periodic elections and rotation is the best way of achieving a more representative and accountable Security Council in line with contemporary democratic ideals,” he said.
Imagine a bankrupt country like Pakistan making such grand statements which even Americans are nowadays not in a position to make?
