[Dawn] India, an aspirant for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, says the 15-member body is “completely out of tune on what is happening in the world”, while pushing for its expansion.“I have absolutely no doubt that the Council, as it is presently structured, serves no one’s purpose… You need to coop other countries which carry weight,” Ambassador Hardeep Sing Puri of India, which holds the Security Council’s presidency for November, told presser at which he briefed journalists about it’s programme for this month.
IndiaÂ’s intensive bid for the CouncilÂ’s permanent membership seems to have come to a halt, at least for the time being, after failing to muster majority support in the 193-member General Assembly. Even a year after claiming the support of 80 members for its proposals to restructure it, New Delhi has failed to prove it.
The figure given by India is also well short the twothird majority, 128 votes, required for any proposal to succeed in the Assembly.
IndiaÂ’s two-year term as a non-permanent member of the Security Council would end at the end of this year.