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US and China both will support India’s bid for permanent UN Security Council membership after Kashmir issue is resolved – but not now!
United States and China are eager to work with India in every possible way. Both the countries privately support Indian’s bid for permanent UN Security Council membership. Officially they oppose. This opposition will continue till the Kashmir issue with Pakistan is resolved. The position of these two countries comes from the need for each of them to have Pakistan on board.
But slowly Pakistan is becoming a non-factor as the world is focusing on trade and business needs and geopolitical rhetoric is taking a back seat.
However, all the five members especially US and China are concerned about diluting the UN Security Council structure any further.
According to IANS, Washington on Thursday effectively stymied the bid by India (and three other major aspirants, Germany, Japan and Brazil) to drive the reform process at the UN by calling for a "consensus" in the world body. Such a consensus is considered nearly impossible in the 191-member General Assembly and a euphemism for inaction.
"The US supports Security Council reform, provided it enhances the effectiveness of the Council," Shirin Tahir-Kheli, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's adviser on UN reform told the General Assembly this week. "As the reform process proceeds, the United States would like to move forward on the basis of broad consensus along the lines we have previously stated and without artificial deadlines."
The US was joined by China in obstructing the UN reform and SC expansion being pushed by Secretary General Kofi Annan, a curiously ill-timed alliance considering how both Washington and Beijing are otherwise leery of each other over ties with India.
Chinese premier Wen Ji Bao has just arrived in India while India's foreign minister Natwar Singh is slated to visit Washington mid-week soon after his departure.
Efforts to prevent the Security Council expansion mandated by a UN panel is also being driven by countries such as Pakistan and Italy, no-hopers who want at any cost to prevent neighbors such as India and Germany from taking a place on the high table.
The US has in the past backed its ally Japan for the Security Council seat, but has never taken a firm position on India. Judging from the remarks of Shirin Tahir-Kheli (who incidentally is a Pakistani-American originally from Hyderabad, India), Washington is not about to go out on limb despite the recent promise to help India become a global power.
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