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Is India’s quest for a permanent seat in the Security Council a possibility or just a pipedream? Elaborate with reasons.

  • UPSC 2014
  • 10 marks
  • India and the UN System

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In November 2020 Pakistan's Permanent Representative Munir Akram told the Assembly that India had no qualification for membership, “permanent or even non-permanent”. Months earlier India had won an elected seat with 184 of 192 votes. The gap between that rhetoric and India's acceptability frames the answer: the quest is a real but distant possibility.

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  • Assessment
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