“Deeply Grateful”: PM Modi As India Elected Unopposed To UN Security Council
India received 184 votes within the 193-member Basic Meeting within the election held Wednesday.
High Minister Narendra Modi mentioned lately that he used to be “deeply thankful” after India used to be elected unopposed as a non-permanent member of the UN Safety Council. India received 184 votes in the 193-member General Assembly within the election held Wednesday.
“Deeply thankful for the overpowering improve proven through the worldwide group for India’s club of the UN Safety Council. India will paintings with all member international locations to advertise world peace, safety, resilience and fairness,” PM Modi tweeted.
Deeply thankful for the overpowering improve proven through the worldwide group for India’s club of the @UN Safety Council. India will paintings with all member international locations to advertise world peace, safety, resilience and fairness.
– Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) June 18, 2020
India, Mexico, Eire and Norway have been elected to the UN Safety Council however the 193 UN member states will have to go back on Thursday to proceed vote casting to fill yet another vacant seat after there used to be no transparent winner.
The Safety Council is the one UN frame that may make legally binding selections like implementing sanctions and authorizing the usage of drive. It has 5 everlasting veto-wielding contributors – america, Britain, France, China and Russia – and 10 non-permanent contributors.
“Member States elect India to the non-permanent seat of the Safety Council for the time period 2021-22 with overwhelming improve,” India’s Everlasting Challenge to the UN tweeted.
India will sit down within the robust UN frame for 2 years starting January 1, along side the 5 everlasting contributors and non-permanent contributors Estonia, Niger, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tunisia and Vietnam.
To be elected to the Council, candidate international locations desire a two-thirds majority of ballots of Member States which might be provide and vote casting within the Meeting. After running just about since March amid the coronavirus pandemic, diplomats returned to the Basic Meeting corridor on Wednesday dressed in mask and adopted bodily distancing to solid their secret ballots at allocated instances.
Member States elect India to the non-permanent seat of the Safety Council for the time period 2021-22 with overwhelming improve.
India will get 184 out of the 192 legitimate votes polled. pic.twitter.com/Vd43CN41cY
– India at UN, NY (@IndiaUNNewYork) June 17, 2020
India used to be the one candidate for the lone seat from the Asia-Pacific class. Its candidature used to be unanimously counseled through the 55-member grouping, together with China and Pakistan, in June remaining 12 months.
India has in the past been elected as a non-permanent member of the Council for the years 1950-1951, 1967-1968, 1972-1973, 1977-1978, 1984-1985, 1991-1992 and maximum just lately in 2011-2012.
