Countries Supporting India For A Permanent Seat At UNSC

Kruel Rage · Nov 10, 2010

ajtr · Nov 10, 2010

good compilation.....

Neil · Nov 10, 2010

we need at least 150 countries to support us or all of them in UNGA for a permanent seat....??

SHASH2K2 · Nov 10, 2010

India for UNSC a cheque that can't be easily cashed: Chinese daily

US President Barack Obama's announcement of support for India's permanent membership in the UN Security Council (UNSC) is essentially "a cheque that cannot be easily cashed", said a Chinese daily. In an article on Wednesday titled "Obama greets India with more than a lip service?" in People's
Daily, columnist Li Hongmei wrote: "Much to the delight of Indians...Obama reportedly alluded to what is called the `emphatic endorsement' for a permanent seat for India in the Security Council, even if he essentially handed the Indians a cheque that cannot be easily cashed."

Support for the permanent UNSC seat for New Delhi was the crowning moment of Obama's Nov 6-9 visit to India.

Obama told Indian parliament Monday: "Indeed, the just and sustainable international order that America seeks includes a United Nations that is efficient, effective, credible and legitimate.

"That is why I can say today - in the years ahead, I look forward to a reformed UN Security Council that includes India as a permanent member."

The People's Daily article said that Obama kickstarted his "biggest ever trade mission" to the city of Mumbai, assuring India "it is never left in the cold by the world's super power".

It said that "a bulky deal of $10 billion concluded with India and a fat prospect of job offers for more than 50,000 Americans are what Obama needs desperately to shrug off the gloomy situation with a reservoir of domestic troubles".

Li noted: "What is equally noteworthy is that India is ramping up its military procurement prompted by the alleged threat from China and its ambition to lead the region, making India an attractive market for US defence companies."

She added: "The US administrations, since George W. Bush, have pinned hope on Delhi to act as the counterweight to Beijing."

While emphasising that Obama and his wife Michelle "would cherish the common sense of returning good for good, as Indians are anxiously expecting", the article stressed that "not all of the US favours are tangible and accessible".

Li had a good word for Michelle, whom she described as "charming first lady", who played hopscotch, danced and sang with disadvantaged children from the Indian charity.

The article went on to say that New Delhi "cannot totally let go (of) the worry that on the US radar screen, strategic vision of India remains diminutive compared with the rivaling Pakistan, and the US would still have to reach out to China while hand-in-hand with India".

On economic issues, "the US and India are right now singing a duet, echoing each other".

The article wrapped up, saying: "It is too early to conclude Obama would satisfy the India's expectations better and more concretely than, say, the previous Bush administration."

"And it is absurd to say Obama's whirlwind tour to India is a proof that the US strategic focus has been shifted from Beijing to Delhi."

Kruel Rage · Nov 10, 2010

Well, we need support of 3/4 of UN members or about 134 nations..

A.V. · Nov 10, 2010

Kruel Rage said:
Well, we need support of 3/4 of UN members or about 134 nations..

what about a veto from the 5 Even after that high possibility

badguy2000 · Nov 10, 2010

almost all above "support" are just cheap blank checks which can't not be cashed forever!

After all, Talks are cheap!

Kruel Rage · Nov 10, 2010

A.V. said:
what about a veto from the 5 Even after that high possibility

Actually, for a vote in the UN general assembly, the resolution has to be passed by the UNSC first. So, we will need to get the UNSC to pass the resolution without a veto & then it will be forwarded to the UNGA for vote in which we will need the support of at least 134 nations to succeed.

A long & difficult task.

plugwater · Nov 10, 2010

I am just wondering how much time it took to find all these links. Really appreciate your work mate

S.A.T.A · Nov 10, 2010

badguy2000 said:
almost all above "support" are just cheap blank checks which can't not be cashed forever!

After all, Talks are cheap!

Which make it incumbent you make good on your own advice and dont indulge in the same.Take the bitter pill with some sweetener

RAM · Nov 10, 2010

China may match Obama support for India for UN seat

NEW DELHI: With US President Barack Obama declaring support for India's bid for a permanent seat, China may move beyond its stated position by announcing a more pointed support for New Delhi's place on the global high table during Chinese premierWen Jiabao's visit next month. The Chinese premier is expected to visit India Dec 16-17, his first trip to the country in five years.

Highly-placed sources told IANS there were some indications already that the Chinese premier may announce a more evolved position on India's bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, which will be more advanced than its articulation on the issue so far.

Sources disclosed that Beijing may surprise New Delhi and belie critics who think the US support was meant to counter China's ascent on the global stage.

"The Chinese premier may come out with a clearer support for India's Security Council ambitions.It's quite possible," Srikanth Kondapalli, a China expert who closely tracks Beijing's moves, told IANS.

India will seek China's support for its candidature for a reformed UNSC when External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna goes to Wuhan to attend the trilateral meeting of foreign minister of Russia, India and China Nov 14 and during National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon's boundary talks later this month, official sources said.

These meetings will also firm up the agenda for Wen's visit next month.

A day after Obama endorsed India's bid for permanent seat in the UNSC, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Tuesday said in Beijing that China was ready for consultations over the issue and values India's status in the international affairs and understands India's aspirations to play a greater role in the United Nations. Beijing's willingness to discuss the issue is seen here as "a step forward" ahead of Wen's visit.

Lalit Mansingh, a former foreign secretary, feels that Beijing may make feel-good noises, but is unlikely to announce unequivocal support, which would be deeply resented by its all-weather ally Pakistan.

"As with the nuclear deal, however, Beijing won't stand in India's way if the US throws its full weight behind India," he said.

President Pratibha Patil sought Beijing's support for Security Council seat during her visit to China in May. Chinese President Hu Jintao assured her that China was ready to discuss the complex issues relating to India's quest for a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council, a marked improvement over its earlier stance about India playing a bigger role in global affairs.

Wen has also said China wanted to ensure "a greater role for India in the UN especially in the Security Council."

Wen is coming to India amid a stressful period in bilateral relations that has been clouded by a host of issues, including the Chinese stapled visas for Indian citizens of Jammu and Kashmir and massive investment plans in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.

If the Chinese premier does declare Beijing's support, it could generate a powerful positive momentum in bilateral relations, sources said. Interestingly, Beijing has already begun to acknowledge India's surging global status. Recently, Beijing elevated China's ambassador to India Zhang Yan to the position equivalent to that of vice foreign minister, a status it gives to only Chinese ambassadors to P5 countries.

Significantly, Wen last visited India in April 2005 barely two months after US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice proclaimed for the first time at a university in Tokyo that the US will help India in becoming a major power.

Wen's 2005 visit saw India and China elevating their relationship to the level of strategic partnership and finalizing guiding principles and political parameters to resolve the boundary dispute. Again, after India and the US struck the landmark nuclear deal in July 2005, Chinese President Hu Jintao visited India in Nov 2006 during which the two sides finalized the 10-point strategy to deepen bilateral relationship.

"This is a pattern. Every time the US inches closer to the US, Beijing watches it carefully and tries to assure India that it's is not against India's rise.

"This time, China may announce support to dispel the impression of rivalry," Kondapalli said. With Obama declaring US support for India's permanent seat bid, only China remains to express its support among the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.

Britain, France and Russia have already pledged support for India's permanent seat in the global body. French President Nicholas Sarkozy and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev are also set to visit India in December and are expected to reiterate their support for India's UN aspirations, making 2010 the year of India's UN diplomacy.

India was elected by a record margin to a non-permanent seat in the UN Security Council last month and will take charge in the council from Jan 1, 2011.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...for-India-for-UN-seat/articleshow/6902467.cms

ajtr · Nov 10, 2010

Arabnews Editorial: India's UN claim

US President Barack Obama has come out in favor of a permanent seat on the UN Security Council for India — and by extension a veto. It is an idea that seems perfectly fair and one that many states around the world endorse. India is the world's second most populous country and a superpower in the making. Certainly Kashmir should not disbar it from having a permanent seat any more than Tibet disbars China or Northern Ireland the UK from retaining theirs.

There is nothing surprising about Washington backing reform of the Security Council. It already supports a permanent seat for Japan. The EU, with two permanent members on the council, has also thrown its weight behind reform. A couple of months ago, at the UN annual General Assembly summit, EU leaders lined up to call for UN reform, including permanent seats for India, Japan Brazil and Germany. Russia, too, supports giving them permanent seats.

Reform is long overdue. It is absurd that the allocation of permanent seats on the Security Council is still based on the victors of World War II. It is a political anachronism. The world moved on long ago. As for the General Assembly, it is illogical that a country like Nauru (population 4,000) has the same voting power as Indonesia (population 240 million) or Nigeria (population 158 million).

Unfortunately for New Delhi (let along Tokyo, Brasilia and Berlin), reform is anything but a simple matter despite being on the agenda for more than a decade. There are too many competing demands; too many conflicting interests.

The African Union wants at least one permanent seat — to go to Egypt, Nigeria or South Africa. It is not too difficult to see a squabble between them if the principle were accepted. As for a German seat, it would mean the Europeans ending up with three — not exactly a fair distribution. And what about a Muslim permanent seat? How can the UN have credibility in the Muslim world if a Muslim voice is excluded from the decision-making process? But who should have it? Again, potential for squabbles. Maybe, the answer in the case of the Europeans, Africans and Muslims would be to give permanent seats not to individual states but to the EU, the AU and the OIC. But that moves the UN away from the idea of being an assembly of the world's states.

The serious block, however, is China. It had made it clear that, despite the willingness of the other four veto powers, it will not allow either India or Japan to have a permanent seat. In the case of India, this does not stem from any concern to ensure a balance between it and Pakistan. China's burgeoning relationship with Pakistan is purely strategic, based on Chinese self-interest. That self-interest has led Beijing to increasingly view both India and Japan as rivals to be confronted and curtailed.

So when Obama told Indian's parliamentarians on Monday that "in the years ahead, I look forward to a reformed UN Security Council that includes India as a permanent member," he hit the nail on the head. It will be years ahead before anything happens.

Agantrope · Nov 10, 2010

badguy2000 said:
almost all above "support" are just cheap blank checks which can't not be cashed forever!

After all, Talks are cheap!

Obama did a lip service, then why the Big Brother in ur avatar said that he will give consultation?

ajtr · Nov 10, 2010

Agantrope said:
Obama did a lip service, then why your Big Brother in ur avatar said that he will give consultation?

big brother knows his younger brother is such a useless guy....

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