Somebody needs to press refresh button on United Nations, says Jaishankar ANI | Updated: Dec 15, 2020 04:49 IST
New Delhi [India], December 15 (ANI): The narrow representation at the leadership levels of the United Nations is a challenge to its credibility and effectiveness, said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, while suggesting that somebody needs to press that refresh button on the UN .
In his speech at the Global Technology Summit on Monday, Jaishankar said, For obvious reasons, we tend to equate multilateralism with the UN. Today the UN is 75 years old.The problem we have today about the narrow representation at the leadership levels of the United Nations is a challenge to its credibility and effectiveness.
Somebody needs to press refresh button on UN: Jaishankar
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Mr. Jaishankar pointed out that the P5 nations are beginning to lose elections in the U.N., a development, he said, really means that the thinking among the member states about them is not what it used to be The narrow representation at the leadership levels of the United Nations is a challenge to its credibility and effectiveness, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said on December 14, making a strong pitch for reformed multilateralism.
Speaking at the Global Technology Summit, Mr. Jaishankar said for obvious reasons the U.N. is equated with multilateralism and the world body is now 75-years-old with the number of members it has about four times to what it was when the world body began.