India is all set to take charge of the Presidency of the UN Security Council on August 1. During it's maiden Presidency of 2021-22 tenure as a non-permanent member of the Security Council, the country is expected to host signature events in three ⛎major areas of maritime security, peacekeeping and counterterrorism during the month.
“It is a singular honou💃r for us to be presiding over the Security Council the same month when we are c🍌elebrating our 75th Independence Day,” India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador T S Tirumurti said 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 progr🔯amme of work for the month.
Tirumur𒁃ti will also provide 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 ꧒schedule released by the UN.
India𒐪’s two-year tenure as a non-permanent member of the Security Council began on January 1, 2021.
The August presidency will be India’s first Presidency during its 2021-22 tenure
India will agaꦕin preside over the Council in December next year, the last month of its two-yearಞ tenure.
During its Presidency, India will be organising high-level signature events in ✅three 🍬major areas - maritime security, peacekeeping and counterterrorism.
In the video message, Tirumurti said m💮aritime security has a high priority for India “and it is important for the Security Council to take a holistic approach to this issue”.
Peacekeepꦆing is a topic “close to our hearts, given our own long and pioneering involvement” with peacekeeping, he said, adding that India will focus on how to ensure the safety of peacekeepers, especially by using better technology and how to bring perpetrators of crimes against peacekeepers to justice.
As a country that h🦩as been at the forefront in the fight agains๊t terrorism, India will continue to keep the spotlight on counterterrorism.
Tirumurti said in the last seven months of India’s tenure in the Council, “we have taken a principled and forward-looking position on variou🥀s 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 voic𓂃es 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 said.
(With PTI Inputs)
