Time has come for making UN bodies more democratic, representative of current realities: Rajnath

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said when India, the most populous nation of the world, does not find a seat as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, it tends to ”undermine the moral legitimacy” of the global organisation.

Addressing a gathering at a seminar held here to mark 75 years of United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping, he also said that time has come for making UN bodies ”more democratic and representative of the current realities of our age”.

He made the remarks in the presence of UN Resident Coordinator Shombi Sharp, who shared the dais with him. In his address, Singh also said, ”While we commemorate the past, we must also look towards the future.”

It is also important to look at the entire UN ecosystem and what can be done to improve it, he said.”One important reform that stares us in our faces is to make UN decision-making bodies, including the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), more reflective of demographic realities of the world,” the defence minister said.