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WHAT JUST HAPPENED?
- Fifty-five countries of the Asia-Pacific group, including Pakistan, have unanimously endorsed India’s candidature for a non-permanent seat of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for a two-year term.
- India’s permanent representative at the UN Syed Akbaruddin thanked the countries for the massive support.
BASICS
- New Delhi had launched its campaign to win a nonpermanent seat at the UNSC for a period of two years at a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) at the capital of Kyrgyzstan in May.
- During a meeting of the SCO Council of Foreign Ministers in Bishkek, the then External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had said, “(The) SCO must support the member countries’ candidatures for the non-permanent membership of the UNSC for the years 2021-2022 and 2027-2028.”
BASICS
- United Nations Security Council
- Article 23 of the UN Charter concerns the composition of the Security Council.
- For Example – Pakistan has previously been member of the Security Council on Seven occasions in 1952-1953, 1968- 1969, 1976-1977, 1983-1984, 1993-1994 and 2003-2004, 2012-13
- Non-permanent members may be involved in global security briefings.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- Previously, India has been elected as a nonpermanent member of the Council for the years 1950–1951, 1967–1968, 1972–1973, 1977–1978, 1984–1985, 1991–1992 and most recently in 2011–2012
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