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| Sarkozy favours a permanent UNSC seat for India
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 30-March-2010
10:3:24 AM |
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French President Nicholas Sarkozy on Tuesday made a strong pitch for India's inclusion as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, which he said needs to be expanded to make it more inclusive.
Speaking at the prestigious Columbia University, Sarkozy said emerging voices like India, Africa and the Arab world need to find a place in the UNSC, as he slammed the present structure of the world body.
"Did you know that India... in 30 years time... the world's most populous nation, doesn't have a permanent seat on the Security Council?" said the French president, hosted by Columbia University as part of the World Leaders Forum.
Setting aside his prepared speech to "speak from the heart," Sarkozy said this Security Council and its membership was decided at the end of the World War II way back in 1945 questioning why no African or Arab country had a permanent seat on the UNSC, despite representing over a billion people together
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