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By: Shree1news, 31 JUL 2021
India will take over the Presidency of the UN Security Council on August 1 and is set to host signature events in three main areas of maritime security, peacekeeping and counter terrorism during the month. “It is a singular honour for us to be presiding over the Security Council the same month when we are celebrating our 75th Independence Day,” India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador T S Tirumurti mentioned in a video message on the eve of India assuming the rotating Presidency of the powerful 15-nation UN body.
The first working day of India’s Presidency will be Monday, August 2 when Tirumurti will hold a hybrid press briefing in the UN headquarters on the Council’s programme of work for the month.
Tirumurti will also present a briefing for member states of the United Nations which are non-members of the Council on its work for the month, according to a schedule released by the UN.
India’s two-year tenure as a non-permanent member of the Security Council started on January 1, 2021. The August presidency will be India’s first Presidency during its 2021-22 tenure as a non-permanent member of the Security Council.
India will again preside over the Council in December next year, the last month of its two-year tenure. Throughout its Presidency, India will be organising high-level signature events in three main areas – maritime security, peacekeeping and counterterrorism.
In the message, Tirumurti stated maritime safety has a excessive priority for India “and it is important for the Security Council to take a holistic approach to this issue”.
Peacekeeping is a topic “close to our hearts, given our own long and pioneering involvement” with peacekeeping, he mentioned, including that India will focus on how to ensure the safety of peacekeepers, especially by using better technology and how you can bring perpetrators of crimes against peacekeepers to justice.
As a country that has been at the forefront in the battle against terrorism, India will continue to maintain the spotlight on counterterrorism.
Tirumurti stated in the last seven months of India’s tenure in the Council, “we have taken a principled and forward-looking position on various issues. We have been unafraid of shouldering responsibilities. We have been proactive. We have focused on issues of our priority.”
“We have made efforts to bridge the different voices within the Council to ensure that the Council comes together and speaks in one voice on a variety of important issues of the day. This is what we will bring into our Presidency,” he mentioned.
Source:A-N
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