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India failing to take a firm stand on UNSC Permanent Membership issue – even Pakistan is talking on the issue!
It seems India and its more than one billion people are getting pushed around by nations of hardly any significance as far as the matter of UN Security Council permanent membership is concerned.
India has failed to exert itself as the emerging global power. Out of all G4 nations (India, Brazil, Germany and Japan) if any one should get the UNSC is definitely India.
India should take a stern attitude and outright demand UNSC membership with full veto power.
But unfortunately of all countries Pakistan is also talking on this matter.
According to PTI, Asserting that it's opposition to the expansion of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was "not India-specific" Pakistan has said it rejects the concept of permanent members itself.
Foreign Minister Khurshid M Kasuri, who addressed the Brookings Institution on Thursday, said, "Our policy is not India specific".
"We have never viewed this (issue of Permanent Membership) from the point of view of the Indo-Pakistan relationship," he said.
"Our policy is based on principles. UN reform is long overdue. As members of the international community, we feel we have a stake in a successful UN system, and in principle we are against permanent members," the Pakistani Foreign Minister said.
Decrying permanent candidature, he said, "The idea of permanence is reprehensible. The UN membership was based on sovereign equality. Why should some be in the Council permanently while there are other countries which can fulfil their international obligations?"
"Some of the current five permanent members will not be there today (if the UN was created today). Some of the Permanent Members of today are less powerful than they were (at the end of World War II)," he said.
Kasuri said that Pakistan had a "holistic approach" to the issue of UNSC expansion. "There is an unhealthy emphasis now on UN Security Council expansion. Unfortunately, it is hijacking the entire UN reform agenda," he said.
The Foreign Minister said that if some countries could look after regional interests in the Council, they should be "re-elected again and again and again".
"They need not be Permanent Members," he said adding, "If a member is from the Asian region, it should go back to the region and ask the region for renewal of the mandate."
Kasuri said that "If the international community generally feels it (candidate) has rendered great service in either development aid or peacekeeping operations or whatever criteria, that country should get re-elected again and again".
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