United Nations: India has won a seat on the United Nations Security Council, making it one of the five non-permanent members in the 15-nation council for 2021-22.
India won 184 votes in the 193-member General Assembly. Along with India, Ireland, Mexico and Norway also won the Security Council elections held Wednesday.
India was elected unopposed as one of the non-permanent member of the UNSC after winning 184 votes in the 193-member General Assembly. The minimum requirement to get elected was 128 votes.
India has served seven times earlier as non-permanent member of the UNSC in 1950-1951, 1967-1968, 1972-1973, 1977-1978, 1984-1985, 1991-1992 and 2011-2012.
T S Tirumurti, the Indian permanent representative to the UN said in a video-recorded message, “We have received overwhelming support and we we deeply humbled by the tremendous confidence that the member states of the United Nations have reposed in India.”
He added: “India will become a member of the United Nations Security Council at a critical juncture and we are confident than in the Covid- and the post-Covid world India will continue to provide leadership and a new orientation for a reformed multilateral system.”