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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has asserted that India country can play a “positive global role” at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic and its grave economic repercussions will test the world like never before. Jaishankar further indicated India’s campaign to secure an elected seat on the United Nations Security Council.
Jaishankar launched a brochure at an event outlining India’s priorities for its forthcoming campaign to secure an elected seat on the UN Security Council at the elections slated for June 17, 2020.
As a single endorsed candidate of the Asia-Pacific Group, India’s candidature is very likely to succeed, the ministry of external affairs said in a statement.
If elected, it would be India’s eighth term on the UN Security Council and this two-year tenure will start in January 2021.
“Ten years since we were last elected to the Security Council, we are facing four very different challenges to international peace and security – the normal process of international governance has been at an increasing strain as frictions have increased, traditional and non-traditional security challenges continue to grow unchecked — terrorism is the most egregious of such examples,” Jaishankar said.
“Global institutions remain unreformed and under representative, they are therefore less able to deliver, the COVID-19 pandemic and its grave economic repercussions will test the world like never before,” he said.
