“Rubbish! Total Rubbish! We don’t need a defence plan. Our policy is ahimsa (non-violence). We foresee no military threat. Scrap the army! The police are good enough to meet our security needs.”
Who said this? Well, I will give out the details. But first, tell me what’s the highlight of the statement I read. That is “SCRAP THE ARMY”.
The first prime minister of India, who is often celebrated by the left-liberal cabal as the most progressive and farsighted leader, wanted to scrap the Indian army. Why? Because he thought that India is a country that follows AHINSA, popularised by MK Gandhi and hence there will never be a military threat. We have a police system to meet our security needs. Well, Nehru’s foresightedness should be cited as the reason for the embarrassment India faced at the hands of China in 1962.
However, we can take a breath now. Why? Because today, we have a government that can actually foresee and form policies accordingly. Today, we have leaders, who instead of disbanding the army to please the West, go to the West and say, ‘If you have concerns about the Human Rights situation in India, I too have concerns about the human rights situation here in the US.’
Jaishankar says ‘hard nuts can be cracked’
India has been at the front foot in advocating for reforms in the United Nations. While responding to a question after his address at the Lowy Institute on the growing importance of India’s relationship with Australia regarding UN Security Council reforms, Jaishankar once again raised the issue of reforms in the UN.
Dr Jaishankar underlined India’s stance and said that reforms are a hard nut to crack, but hard nuts can be cracked. Jaishankar said that the world body will become “irrelevant” without much-delayed reforms.
Jaishankar said, “We completely understand that this is not something which is going to be done easily…but it’s something which has to be done. Otherwise, we will end up frankly, with an increasingly irrelevant United Nations.”
Also read: A consolidated list of badass statements issued by S Jaishankar during UNGA and Washington visit
The UNSC and the problems
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six main bodies of the United Nations, which consists of 15 members. Out of these 5 countries have permanent membership, China, Russia, the US, France and the United Kingdom. Whereas the other 10 rotate every two years.
India is currently a non-permanent member of the UNSC, the status commenced in 2020 and will terminate by this December. India has time and again emphasised that being the 5th largest economy and a nation to such a big population of the world, it rightly deserves a place at the UN high table as a permanent member.
Highlighting the issue of membership on a global perspective, Jaishankar said that there are continents which actually feel that the Security Council process does not take into account their problems and that is actually damaging for the organisation itself.
Jaishankar asserted, “I think that’s hugely damaging to the UN. So one of the developments this time, in fact, has been a very explicit recognition by President Joe Biden of the need to actually reform the UN which is not a small development, but we need to get it because we all know why reform has been blocked for so many years.”
Now, why is India advocating for reforms, because it is necessary to bring representatives on the table from all around the world to reflect the contemporary global reality.
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The need for urgent reforms
Jaishankar says it’s right that either you reform or be irrelevant, now it is upto the global organisation (UN
) to decide. The observers understand that all that the UN and its organisations have progressed is that they have now become a failed organisation from the designation of failing. The UN and its organisations have failed to solve the crises around the world, be it India-China, the Kashmir issue or the recent Ukraine-Russia crisis.
Well, this is what happens to an organisation’s efficiency when it becomes a bureaucratic behemoth and bends to the biggest sponsors. And it’s high time, if the UN and its organisations do not reform it will become the League of Nations 2.0.
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