PERMANENT MEMBERSHIP IN UNSC
LOK SABHA
In his Reports to
the 58th UN General Assembly, on the Implementation
of the Millennium Declaration and the Annual Report on the Work
of the Organisation, the UN Secretary General noted that the Security
Council needs to regain the confidence of States and of world
public opinion, and will be better able to do so if it is perceived
to be broadly representative of the international community as
a whole and of the geo-political realities of the contemporary
world. The Secretary General, however, has not made any specific
proposal on the reform of the Security Council. He has set up
a 16-member High Level Panel on Global Security, Threats and reform
of the International System, which has been tasked , inter alia,
with the changes necessary to ensure effective collective action
including but not limited to a review of the principal organs
of the United Nations. The Panel will submit its recommendations
before the beginning of the 59th Session of UN General
Assembly in 2004 for consideration by member States.
The Government has,
in all its recent high-level bilateral interactions, taken up
India’s case for permanent membership in the UN Security Council.
This information
was give by the Union Minister of State for External Affairs,
Shri Digvijay Singh in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
