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Washington, Oct 18: The United States Ambassador to UN, Nikki Haley has said that the key to India’s permanent membership to the Security Council is not to touch the veto. She said that none of the five members–Russia, China, the UK, the US and France– would ever want to give up their veto power. She added that Russia and China were against any change in the structure of the body.
“This reform of the UN Security Council is much more about the veto. The permanent five (members of the Security Council) have the ability to veto. Russia, China, the UK, the US and France and none of them want to give that up,” PTI quoted her as saying.
“So the key to getting India on the Security Council would have to be not to touch the veto,” she added.
She said the United States was ready for a change in the structure of the security council. However, the US Congress and the Senate had no say in reforming the most powerful United Nations body.
“Not really. They really can’t. Because members of the Security Council are not going to listen to the Congress on the shape of the Security Council,” she said.
She said the US was ready for reform, but the focus should be on Russia and China as they did not want to see any changes in the Security Council.
“It’s a UN issue, it’s going to require UN reform and I think, India has to go and bring together as many supporters as it can in order to really effect that change in the Security Council,” Haley said.
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