India elected unopposed as a non-permanent member to United Nations Security Council

Registering a comfortable victory, India got elected on Thursday as a non-permanent member of the 15 member United Nations Security Council (UNSC) from the Asia-Pacific category for 2021-22 term.

This is for the 8th time that India has been elected to UNSC.

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India hopes to utilize its eighth term to additionally construct its case for a permanent seat in United Nations Security Council, something that it has been pushing throughout recent years.

India has been elected as a non-permanent member of the Council for the years 1950-1951, 1967-1968, 1972-1973, 1977-1978, 1984-1985, 1991-1992 and most recently in 2011-2012.

The UNSC consists of 15 members: 10 non-permanent and five permanent members — China, France, Russia, the UK and US.

The 10 non-permanent seats are distributed on a regional basis as follows: five for African and Asian states; one for the Eastern European States; two for the Latin American and Caribbean States; and two for Western European and other States.

(With inputs from agencies)