Obama Backs India’s Bid for Security Council Seat
India's future role in the United Nations might just bump up a big notch soon, thanks to Barack Obama's endorsement The president officially announced his support for India's permanent inclusion on the UN's Security Council on Monday (continued).
India’s future role in the United Nations might just bump up a big notch soon, thanks to Barack Obama’s endorsement. The president officially announced his support for India’s permanent inclusion on the U.N.’s Security Council on Monday, a move that was met with some skepticism and wariness in neighboring Pakistan. –KA
WAIT BEFORE YOU GO...BBC:
Mr Obama said the Washington-Delhi relationship would be one of this century’s defining partnerships.
The loudest applause came when Mr Obama told dignitaries: “As two global leaders, the United States and India can partner for global security — especially as India serves on the Security Council over the next two years.
“Indeed the just and sustainable international order that America seeks includes a United Nations that is efficient, effective, credible and legitimate.
“And that is why I can say today, in the years ahead, I look forward to a reformed United Nations Security Council that includes India as a permanent member.”
[…] Pakistan’s foreign ministry spokesman, Abdul Basit, said Mr Obama’s move “adds to the complexity of the process of reforms of the council”.
This year, the ground feels uncertain — facts are buried and those in power are working to keep them hidden. Now more than ever, independent journalism must go beneath the surface.
At Truthdig, we don’t just report what's happening — we investigate how and why. We follow the threads others leave behind and uncover the forces shaping our future.
Your tax-deductible donation fuels journalism that asks harder questions and digs where others won’t.
Don’t settle for surface-level coverage.
Unearth what matters. Help dig deeper.
Donate now.
The viral outbreak is threatening to crimp worldwide economic growth and hurt profits and revenue for a wide range of businesses.
Since a pair of crashes left 346 dead, not a single member of the company's board has testified under oath. The public deserves answers.
A new report from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change finds desertification is destroying the very soil that feeds us.
The administration wants to prevent most migrants from seeking asylum in the U.S. if they pass through another country first.
A new Russian-Chinese alliance threatens to upend the existing world order, argues Rob Jonson of the Institute on New Economic Thinking.
The president's fervently nationalist agenda has not only hurt our closest allies but undermined multilateral efforts to contain China.
You need to be a supporter to comment.
There are currently no responses to this article.
Be the first to respond.