Hrs right after India was elected to the Safety Council with an mind-boggling vast majority of 184 votes, Key Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter on Thursday, June 18, saying he was deeply grateful to the assistance revealed by the world local community for India’s membership of the UN Security Council.
PM Modi also said that India would operate to endorse international peace, stability, resilience, and equity.
Getting to Twitter, PM Modi wrote, “Deeply grateful for the too much to handle assist demonstrated by the worldwide group for India’s membership of the UN Protection Council. India will get the job done with all member nations to market world-wide peace, protection, resilience and equity.”
The PM’s remarks arrived a day just after India was elected unopposed to the Safety Council with 184 votes working on a system of fighting terrorism and endorsing the ethos of “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” — the environment is a single family.
Yesterday’s (June 17) elections took spot in opposition to the backdrop of the dispute in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley with China, whom it will be a part of on the Council in January 1, 2021 together with 5 long term customers and non-lasting users such as, Estonia, Niger, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tunisia and Vietnam.
Here’s a record of decades when India has been elected as a non-lasting member of the UNSC:
- 1950-1951
- 1967-1968
- 1972-1973
- 1977-1978
- 1984-1985
- 1991-1992
- 2011-2012







The nationwide capital received the Asia Pacific seat on the UN’s greatest choice-creating overall body with the unanimous aid of the nations around the world in the 55-member team, with China and Pakistan, at the very least brazenly, conceding help in the encounter of an overpowering backing for India from the other people.
Together with India, Mexico, Ireland and Norway ended up also elected to the UN Safety Council. The 193 UN member states need to return on Thursday to continue on voting to fill just one extra vacant seat immediately after there was no very clear winner.
Taking to Twitter, India’s Permanent Mission to the UN wrote, “Member States elect India to the non-long-lasting seat of the Protection Council for the phrase 2021-22 with too much to handle assist.”
The UNSC is the only UN overall body that can make lawfully obligatory judgments like imposing sanctions and approving the use of drive. It has five long term veto-wielding associates – the US, Britain, France, China and Russia – and 10 non-lasting users.
(With company inputs)