India to re-chair Council for one month in 2022. (File)
The United Nations:
India, which has been elected a non-permanent member of the Security Council, will chair the powerful body of the 15 United Nations for the month of August 2021.
The presidency of the Council is held in rotation by each of the members for one month, according to the English alphabetical order of the names of the Member States.
According to information released by the office of the UN spokesperson, India will assume the rotating presidency of the Council for August next year.
India will again chair the Council for one month in 2022.
India, Norway, Ireland, Mexico and Kenya have been elected non-permanent members of the UNSC for a two-year term starting January 1, 2021, Wednesday.
In an unprecedented election, the ambassadors and diplomats of 192 member states voted in the General Assembly with masks and in accordance with strict directives on social distancing in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
India, the approved candidate for the Asian and Pacific states, won 184 votes from the 192 ballots cast.
Tunisia will begin 2021 as President of the Council in January, followed by one month each for the rest of the year by the United Kingdom, the United States, Vietnam, China, Estonia, France, India, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico and Niger.
In 2021, newly elected India, Ireland, Kenya, Norway and Mexico will sit at the United Nations high table with the five permanent members – China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States – as well as permanent non-members Estonia, Niger, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tunisia and Vietnam.
The two-year terms of Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Germany, Indonesia and South Africa expire this year.
It is the eighth time that India has sat at the horseshoe-shaped table of the Council. Previously, India was elected for the years 1950-1951, 1967-1968, 1972-1973, 1977-1978, 1984-1985, 1991-1992, and more recently in 2011-2012.
