India Criticises UN Security Council For Disregarding Members' Opinions

Bishnoi referred to a recommendation made by a panel on UN-AU cooperation that was headed by former Italian Prime Minister Romano Pardi that proposed that the UN fund AU peacekeeping operations for six months and with the approval of the Council and the General Assembly bring the AU missions under UN management within six months. He said India's recommendation to the Council would be to ask Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to draw up roadmap for implementing Pardi Panel recommendations.

While regional arrangements can help the UN in peace-keeping, the world body should continue to have the primary role, he said. The regional organization's role "must be to reinforce rather than to replace that of the UN". With the "regionalisation and subregionalisation of peacekeeping" he said, "We need to also start worrying if the impartiality of the UN forces is called into question."

India has criticised the working of the Security Council which decides on vital international issues like peace-keeping operations for its lack of transparency and accountability, and for not being open to ideas from other UN members.

There is a universal demand for reforming the Security Council, which has 15 members, five of them permanent with veto powers and the rest elected, to ensure wider global representation.

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