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UNSC seat yes, but don't
ask for veto, says Annan
What is India News Service,
Friday, 29 April 2005, 1400 hrs IST
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan today
categorically said India\92s aspirations for a seat in the Security Council were
legitimate even as the five permanent members were unwilling to create any
additional veto.
\93It is not
going to be possible to remove veto from the permanent five and the proposal
on the table does not provide veto power to the new members in an expanded UNSC,\94
he observed at a media interface here.
The five permanent members are the US, Russia,
France, Britain and China.
At the same time, attempts at reforming the UN
to meet the challenges of the 21st century called for democratising the Security
Council so that \93voices of other regions are heard,\94 Mr Annan said.
The proposal was to have new permanent members
of the UNSC without the veto power. However, if changes were to be effected to
enable new permanent members to have veto rights then it was for the member
states to decide, he said.
He said discussions were taking place on two
options with regard to the UNSC expansion. \93I cannot have a preference for
either of the two options or express an opinion which member state should be in
the UNSC.\94
Asked for his comments about the Nuclear
Proliferation Treaty (NPT) being discriminatory and the Comprehensive Test Ban
Treaty (CTBT) having failed to achieve its objective, the Secretary General said
a review of the NPT was on the anvil to assess \93where we are and where we want
to go. It is imperative to live up to the treaty that we sign.\94
Govt
to go slow on military aid to Nepal:
Virtually charging the King of Nepal with reneging on his
assurances to India on initiating movement towards democracy, External Affairs
Minister Natwar Singh on Thursday said the military aid to the neighbouring
country was under review and would remain under review.
Muivah
wants federal ties with India: The General Secretary of the National
Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) has told the BBC that the Nagas
"can come as close as possible but it's not possible for the Nagas to come
within the Indian Union or within the framework of the Indian
Constitution". In his first comments to the international media since
intense dialogue with the Indian Government resumed last December, Mr
Thuingaleng Muivah told the BBC that "Nagaland was never a part of India
either by conquest by India or by consent of the Nagas. This is very
clear."
Japanese
PM Koizumi arrives in India: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi
arrived here on Thursday night on a three-day visit that is expected to impart a
strategic orientation to the "global partnership" between the two
countries.
Seer's
brother, mutt manager, face narcotics charge: The manager of the Kanchi
Mutt, Sundaresa Iyer, an accused in the ``Kanchi Sankararaman murder case,'' has
now been booked under the provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic
Substances Act (NDPS). The formal arrest in the new case was made on Tuesday.
NDA
leaders meet Kalam, seek Lalu\92s ouster: NDA
leaders today met President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to advise Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh to remove Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav from the Cabinet.
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Ulfa
joins LeT ranks in US report: The United Liberation Front of Assam
and the Communist Party of India (Maoist) in India have joined the ranks of the
Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed in Pakistan and the Liberation Tigers of
Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka with the US State Department including the Indian
groups in its list of terrorist organisations.
1,140 are awaiting capital punishment in India: Mobster Aftab Ansari and his six accomplices, sentenced to death in
Kolkata, join some 1,140 men and women across the country awaiting capital punishment - or
pardon.
Nandita
Das on jury: Actress Nandita Das has been invited to be part of the jury at
the 58th Cannes Film Festival in France next month. She received the offer a
fortnight ago, her husband Soumya Sen, told PTI here on Thursday.
CVC
urges legislature to let CBI 'work freely':
Central Vigilance Commissioner P Shankar has urged the legislature
and the bureaucracy to let the CBI "work freely" as the popular
perception that the agency was "adjustive or collaborative" had to be
done away with. The CVC made the statement in his address at the DP Kohli
Memorial lecture organised by the CBI.
States
IAF
official in custody: Indian Air Force official Anjali Gupta, who is facing
court martial, was on Thursday taken into custody ``to prevent her from harming
herself.''
Chandy
calls on Sonia: Kerala
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Thursday called on Congress president Sonia
Gandhi. Though he did not reveal anything, the Chief Minister's meeting assumes
significance as it comes just before the possible split in the party's state
unit.
Neighbours
World Bank suggests three names: Neutral expert on Baglihar: Pakistan on Tuesday formally received from the World Bank names of three internationally renowned experts on water issues in the first step towards the appointment of a
neutral expert.
View from abroad
House
of Representatives passes resolution lauding Indians:
The House of Representatives has adopted a resolution lauding the
contributions of the Indian American community and graduates of the Indian
Institutes of Technology (IITS) to the United States.
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