India has all 'ingredients' to be in UNSC: Pranab

Source: PTI

October 03, 2007 21:18 IST

Insisting that the United Nations structure should reflect 'contemporary realities,' External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said India should get a seat in the Security Council as it has all the 'ingredients' to be a permanent member.

The international system has undergone changes since the inception of the world body in 1945, he said on the Charlie Rose Show on PBS.

"We do believe that India should get a seat in the Security Council, because we believe -- not only we -- certain other countries should also have its place in the Security Council, because in 1945

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when these institutions were created, since then world has undergone major changes," Mukherjee said.

"All over the world, changes have taken place. Therefore, in the functioning of the United Nations, in its structure and in its contents, it should reflect the contemporary realities," he said.

"That is why the reforms of the United Nations is necessary, and, of course, India considers it qualifies all the ingredients necessary to be a permanent member of Security Council," the minister added.