India set to take over as President of UN Security Council for month of August

India will take over the Presidency of the UN Security Council on August 1 and is about to host signature occasions in three main areas of maritime safety, peacekeeping and counterterrorism in the course of the month.
“It is a singular honour for us to be presiding over the Security Council the same month when we are celebrating our 75th Independence Day,” India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador T S Tirumurti mentioned in a video message on the eve of India assuming the rotating Presidency of the highly effective 15-nation UN physique.
The first working day of India’s Presidency shall be Monday, August 2 when Tirumurti will maintain a hybrid press briefing within the UN headquarters on the Council’s programme of labor for the month.
Tirumurti can even present a briefing for member states of the United Nations that are non-members of the Council on its work for the month, in accordance with a schedule launched by the UN.
India’s two-year tenure as a non-permanent member of the Security Council started on January 1, 2021.The August presidency shall be India’s first Presidency throughout its 2021-22 tenure as a non-permanent member of the Security Council.
India will once more preside over the Council in December subsequent yr, the final month of its two-year tenure.
During its Presidency, India shall be organising high-level signature occasions in three main areas – maritime safety, peacekeeping and counterterrorism.
In the video message, Tirumurti mentioned maritime safety has a excessive precedence for India “and it is important for the Security Council to take a holistic approach to this issue”.
Peacekeeping is a subject “close to our hearts, given our own long and pioneering involvement” with peacekeeping, he mentioned, including that India will deal with how to make sure the security of peacekeepers, particularly by utilizing higher know-how and the right way to deliver perpetrators of crimes towards peacekeepers to justice.
As a rustic that has been on the forefront within the combat towards terrorism, India will proceed to maintain the highlight on counterterrorism.
Tirumurti mentioned within the final seven months of India’s tenure within the Council, “we have taken a principled and forward-looking position on various issues. We have been unafraid of shouldering responsibilities. We have been proactive. We have focused on issues of our priority.”
“We have made efforts to bridge the different voices within the Council to ensure that the Council comes together and speaks in one voice on a variety of important issues of the day. This is what we will bring into our Presidency,” he mentioned.