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Discuss the importance of India’s role in UN peacekeeping operations as a ground for its claim to a permanent seat in the UN Security Council.

  • UPSC 2023
  • 15 marks
  • India and the UN System

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Article 23 of the Charter asks the Assembly, when electing non-permanent members, to give due regard to their contribution to international peace and security. Peacekeeping is India's most tangible evidence of that contribution. Its weight is real, but it works as an argument from equity and performance, not from the Charter's logic of permanence.

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