'UN needs to be more democratic and representative': Defence Minister Rajnath Singh

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Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Tuesday that since India has still not found a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), the moral legitimacy of the global body is getting undermined...

The defence minister also said that now is the time that UN bodies become more democratic and representative of the current realities of our age...

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, Singh said as he shared the dias with UN Resident Coordinator Shombi Sharp...

When India, the most populous nation of the world, does not find a seat as a permanent member of the UNSC, it tends to undermine the moral legitimacy of the UN..

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