How will UNSC become the voice of the world without us, PM Modi gave an interview to French newspaper

Making a strong pitch for India’s permanent membership of the UN Security Council, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the UN’s primary body cannot claim to speak for the world when its most populous country and largest democracy is its permanent member. Not there. He made the remarks during an interview with French newspaper ‘Les Echoes’ ahead of his two-day official visit to France on Thursday.

Asked whether the credibility of the United Nations is at stake, with India still not getting permanent membership of the UNSC, PM Modi said the United Nations is one of the many global institutions, established in the wake of World War II. were made, and it has to be seen whether they are representative of today’s world, which has changed a lot in the past eight decades.

Furthermore, while talking to Les Echos, PM Modi said that the issue is not just one of credibility, but much bigger. I believe the world needs to have an honest discussion about the multilateral governance structures created after World War II. He said that nearly eight decades after the creation of the institutions, the world has changed, the number of member states has quadrupled and the character of the global economy has also changed. We live in the era of new technology. The emergence of new powers has brought about a relative change in the global balance.