Russia Backs India's Bid For Permanent Seat At UN Security Council

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov today backed India for becoming a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov supported India's permanent membership in the UN Security Council. Addressing the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sergei Lavrov said that the Security Council would be more democratic if countries from Africa, Asia and Latin America were included.

He said,

We see the possibility of making the Security Council more democratic by representing countries from Africa, Asia and Latin America. India and Brazil, in particular, are major international players and should be counted as permanent members of the Council."

He added that India and Brazil in particular,

They are major international players and should be counted as permanent members of the Council.

He also accused Western countries of making a fit of the referendum taking place in the Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine to become part of their union.

He said that the United States is trying to turn the entire world into its "backyard", and is punishing with its opposing partners from its global point of view, through what he called "unlawful unilateral sanctions" that violate the Charter of the United Nations, and harm poor citizens. in poor countries.

earlier,

India along with 31 other countries stated in a joint statement on reforms that enlargement of the Security Council in both permanent and non-permanent categories, as well as reform in its working methods, is indispensable to make the body more representative, legitimate and effective. Delegations reiterated.

The signatories of the joint statement stated that they reaffirm that adapting the United Nations to the realities of the contemporary world necessarily requires an urgent and comprehensive reform of the Security Council, the principal organ of international peace and security.

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