United Nations Headquarters hosted a round-table discussion on Council reform, hosted by the Permanent Missions of Brazil and India to the United Nations, South Africa and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Speaking at the seminar, India's Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations, Kambo, said the current structure of the UN Security Council no longer corresponds to the realities of an interconnected multipolar world.
Kambo pointed out that the structure of the Security Council was designed in a different era and failed to fully express the rise of new powers, the changing geopolitical landscape and the aspirations of countries to a fairer and more just global order.
Kambo believes that the Security Council should be expanded to the global arena, both permanent and permanent, and that it is necessary for countries that can promote peace, assist economic development and solve other problems.
(for India)
What does India see as the reality of the world?
India's perception of the reality of the world is simple: India has also become a great power and should be on an equal footing with traditional powers.
How do you sit on an equal footing?
Specific to the UN Security Council, that is to make India a permanent member, with the same powers as the other five permanent members.
Indian diplomats say so much, that's what they mean.
India has never hidden its desire to join the P5, and it believes it is qualified to be a part of it.
Especially after India's GDP data overtook that of the UK, India was more aggressive.
Hosting a round table this time to talk about "world reality" has some meaning of persecution.
(Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi)
Is India eligible to join?
To become a permanent member of the Council is not what India thinks qualified.
There are many countries that want to become permanent members of the Security Council, and some countries are more competitive than India.
For example, Brazil and South Africa.
Both are developing countries, but the geographical location of these two countries is different from India.
Brazil is in Latin America and South Africa is in Africa.
At present, there are no countries from Latin America and South Africa in the five permanent members of the Security Council.
Therefore, Brazil and South Africa will be prioritized in the event of an expansion.
As for India, although the United States and Russia have expressed support, when it comes to the voting period, there will always be a P5 country that opposes.
India has submitted its application for membership more than once, but everyone seems to have discussed it, and there is always a permanent member who will vote against.
India is still trying to think it deserves it, but without large-scale reforms, it is unrealistic for India to join them.
It is almost impossible for even other countries to join them. Because the P5 have common interests on this issue.
(UN Security Council)
The P5 mechanism is the foundation of the international order
The United Nations was a product of the Second World War and laid the foundations for the international order that followed.
The P5 mechanism is the foundation of the United Nations.
Some countries that want to join, while saying that the Security Council is not good, sharpen their heads and drill into it.
Although the five countries also support reform, reform is not such a simple matter.
Nor is it that simply joining a few countries is a reform.
The Council is a decision-making body, and as a decision-making body, it is destined that too many countries will join it, and if there are too many seats, the more complex and inefficient the decision-making will be.
Therefore, reform is reform, and expansion is expansion. It cannot be said that it is justified to demand the expansion of the workforce under the banner of reform.