Organisation founded 80 years ago struggling to deliver peace today: India on need for UNSC reforms

Organisation founded 80 years ago struggling to deliver peace today: India on need for UNSC reforms left Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni. File ANI ANI ANI New York [U.S.], Oct 16 (ANI): Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni, speaks during the United Nations Security Council's (UNSC) quarterly open debate on 'The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question' at the UN Headquarters, in New York on Thursday.

(Parvathaneni Harish/X / ANI Video Grab) India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni said an organisation that cannot renew its principal organ will find it ever harder to command authority in a world that has moved far beyond 1945 United Nations India has highlighted the UN Security Council's struggles to deliver peace and reconciliation in some of the “gravest" global conflicts, emphasising that authority derived from victory in the Second World War cannot compensate for a “deficit in legitimacy” of an unrepresentative UNSC today.

People don’t perceive U.N. as organisation that delivers on international peace, security: India storyline 1 The UN matters, as a symbol of possibility opinion 1 India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni on Thursday (October 22, 2026) said an organisation that cannot renew its principal organ will find it ever harder to command authority in a world that has moved far beyond 1945.

“The cost is already visible. Eighty years on, the Organisation is struggling to deliver peace and reconciliation in some of the gravest conflicts before the Council,” Mr. Parvathaneni said addressing the ‘Question of Equitable representation on and increase in the membership of Security Council’ in the UN General Assembly here. India voices concern over UN's liquidity situation in 2026, says unpaid assessment are at ‘unacceptably high levels’ India voices concern over UN's liquidity situation in 2026, says unpaid assessment are at ‘unacceptably high levels’ The U.S.

is the single largest financial contributor to the UN, paying 22% of the regular budget and 27% of the peacekeeping budget India voices concern over UN's liquidity situation in 2026, says unpaid assessment are at ‘unacceptably high levels’ storyline 1 The Indian envoy said that the “authority derived from a victory eight decades ago cannot compensate for the deficit in legitimacy of an unrepresentative Security Council today.” Mr.

Parvathaneni highlighted the inadequacies and failures of a global organisation founded in the aftermath of the Second World War in addressing contemporary geopolitical challenges and conflicts. “No war, especially one that took place over 80 years ago, should determine today’s state of the world,” he said, adding that the year 1945, when the UN was founded, cannot be held as the “sole reference point” for today’s United Nations.

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“History can be a guide for what not to do. It cannot determine today’s choices for what needs to be done to face contemporary challenges. We cannot reasonably drive into the future by constantly looking at the rearview mirror,” he said. He said that the credibility of the United Nations is “called into question” as conflicts multiply and the council struggles to respond. “The citizens of today want to look ahead to what the future has in store for them and not at the distant past.

They want equality, rights, fraternity of international cooperation in its truest sense. Let this organisation not send them back in a time machine to 1945 every time it discusses Peace and Security,” the Indian envoy said. India also called out the deliberate suppression of sacrifices made by nations in the world wars while an organisation “crafted of the victors, for the victors and by the victors” did not include concerns of the victims.

“Sacrifices made in the World Wars have been countless, unrecognised and in some cases, deliberately suppressed,” he said, adding that around 2.5 million Indians took part in the war and around 90,000 of them died in military service. Over four million were killed in the infamous Bengal famine due to colonial war policies. “An organisation crafted of the victors, for the victors and by the victors did not, obviously, care to include the concerns of the victims.

The times have changed and the UN Security Council must also evolve — for the sake of its own relevance,” he said. India bats for greater Global South representation in UNSC India bats for greater Global South representation in UNSC At the Inter-Governmental Negotiations (IGN) meeting on UN Security Council reforms, India highlighted the “need for greater representation of the Global South, particularly in the permanent category," the Ministry of External Affairs said in a post on X.

India bats for greater Global South representation in UNSC storyline 1 “Reform is not the settlement of old scores. It is an investment in a Council that all Member States can trust, and which would be stronger as a result,” he said. India, which is vying for a non-permanent UNSC seat for the 2028-29 term, said that the Asia-Pacific Group accounting for more than 60% of the world’s population has no choice but to be limited in its representation in the council to one permanent member and an elected membership varying between one and two members every year.

Africa and Latin America also remain under-repres…