(Video) Rajya Sabha TV (RSTV) The Big Picture: UN Security Council Reforms

Topic: UN Security Council Reforms

Guest:

Professor Harsh V Pant (Distinguished Fellow, ORF)
Dilip Sinha, (Former Ambassador,)
Alok Bansal, (Director, India Foundation)

Topic Description:

The issue of push to expand the UN Security Council... which is tasked with primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security...

Off late, France has emerged as a leading voice to expand the powerful global body with its envoy to UN underlining the need to place India, along with Germany and Brazil, as permanent members...

The French envoy also added that an enlarged and reformed security council is needed to reflect the world as it is...

India too has been at the forefront pushing for the long-pending reform of the UN Security Council... stressing that it rightly deserves a place as a permanent member...

India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin had said that a total of 113 member states out of 122... which is more than 90% of the written submissions of the member states support the expansion in the security council...

Now, how important is the expansion of the UN Security Council and what it means for India to be accorded as permanent member in the global body...