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Siddharth Varadarajan
Support for India's bid for permanent seat in Security Council
SIGNS OF SUCCESS: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with Deputy Prime Minister & Foreign Minister of Ethiopia Hailemariam Desalegn on his arrival at the Bole International Airport in Ethiopia on Monday.
Siddharth Varadarajan
Support for India's bid for permanent seat in Security Council
SIGNS OF SUCCESS: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with Deputy Prime Minister & Foreign Minister of Ethiopia Hailemariam Desalegn on his arrival at the Bole International Airport in Ethiopia on Monday.
Addis Ababa: If the views of the 15 countries taking part in the Africa-India Forum Summit here this week are indicative of the overall mood on the continent, the biggest political payoff for New Delhi from its renewed engagement with Africa could well be an accelerated process of reform at the United Nations, when the 66th session of the General Assembly starts in September.
The Summit resolutions, to be adopted on May 25, will include one in which Africa takes note of India's position and aspirations to become “a permanent member with full rights” in an expanded U.N. Security Council. More importantly, the 15 African participants and India will “emphasise that member-states should exert utmost effort on the UNSC reform [process] during the current session of the U.N. General Assembly,” according to the draft text finalised by External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and his African counterparts on Monday.
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