Modi makes strong pitch for India's inclusion in UNSC, demands reforms
Making a strong pitch for India's inclusion as a long term member of US Security Council, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said "reform in the responses, in the processes, and in the character of the US may be the need of the hour" and wondered as to how long India with its unique contribution to the UN will be "kept out from the decision-making structures" of the world body.
Addressing the 75th US General Assembly in Hindi through video-conferencing, the Prime Minister said that the international community is confronted with an essential question about the relevance of US as the "requirements and challenges" of the present in addition to the future are vastly not the same as those when the world body was constituted in 1945, reports ANI."
Reform in the responses, in the processes, and in the character of the US may be the need of the hour. For how long will India be kept from the decision-making structures of the US?," Modi asked. "That is a country, which includes hundreds of languages, a huge selection of dialects, many sects, and several ideologies; That is a country, that was a respected global economy for years and years and also one which includes endured more than 100 years of foreign rule.
How long would a country have to wait particularly when the transformational changes happening in that country affect a large section of the world?" he asked. Barring China, all the four long term members of the UNSC have expressed support for India's candidature for a long term seat in the security council.
Modi said that every Indian, while seeing the contribution of India in the United Nations, aspires for India's expanded role within the body. He also described India's contributions to about 50 UN peace missions over the decades. "India has always given priority to the welfare of depends upon. India may be the country, which sent its brave soldiers to about 50 peacekeeping missions around the world to keep peace.
India is that country, which throughout maintaining peace, has lost the maximum number of its brave soldiers Today every Indian, while seeing the contribution of India in the US, aspires for India's expanded role in the US," he said.
He needed a "serious introspection of the task of the US" as there have been several wars, terrorist attacks which shook the world.The Prime Minister said in these wars and in these attacks, the people who died, "they are persons just like you and me".
"The world of 1945 was drastically different from the modern world. In the 21st century, certain requirements and challenges of our present, and also our future, are vastly not the same as those of the past," he said.He said additionally, there are several instances that time to the need for a significant introspection of the task of the US.
"One could say that people have successfully avoided a third World War. But we can not deny that there were several wars, and more civil wars. Several terrorist attacks shook the world and rivers of blood have continued to flow by. In these wars and in these attacks, the persons who died, they are persons just like you and me. Hundreds and a large number of children, who would have otherwise enriched this world with their presence, have gone us prematurely," he said.
