Chennai: India’s flag is all set to be installed at the United Nations Security Council stakeout today as the country begins its two-year tenure as a non-permanent member of the powerful UN body.
Flags of the five new incoming non-permanent members will be installed at the stakeout during a special ceremony today, the first official working day of 2021.
India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador T S Tirumurti, will install the tricolour and is likely to make brief remarks at the ceremony.
India, which has been at the forefront of the years-long efforts to reform the UN Security Council, on Friday began its two-year tenure as a non-permanent member of the powerful organ of the world body.
India will sit in the 15-nation United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the 2021-22 term as a non-permanent member – the eighth time that the country has had a seat on the powerful horseshoe table.
In 2021, India, Norway, Kenya, Ireland and Mexico join non-permanent members Estonia, Niger, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tunisia and Vietnam and the five permanent members China, France, Russia, UK and the US in the Council.
India will be UNSC President in August 2021 and will preside over the Council again for a month in 2022.