New Delhi, India — External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will launch India’s campaign for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the 2028–29 term during his visit to the United States next week. He is also scheduled to meet UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the UN headquarters in New York.
Jaishankar, who concluded a four-nation visit to Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman from July 5 to 10, is expected to arrive in the United States on Saturday.
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On Monday, he will formally unveil India’s UNSC campaign at a special event at the UN headquarters before holding talks with Guterres later in the day, according to the UN’s official schedule.
India last served as a non-permanent member of the 15-nation Security Council during the 2021–22 term. Elections for the 2028–29 term are scheduled for June next year, with India and Tajikistan competing for the Asia-Pacific Group’s sole available seat.
The campaign comes at a time of heightened global geopolitical tensions, including the ongoing war in Ukraine, the conflict in Gaza, and the recent U.S.-Israel military actions against Iran.
Under the campaign theme “#India4UNSC 2028-29: Peace, Planet, Progress,” New Delhi is positioning itself as a strong advocate for multilateral cooperation and UN reform.
During his address to the Indonesian Parliament earlier this week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the rapidly changing global order requires greater participation by developing nations in global decision-making.
“In this evolving global landscape, India firmly believes that reforms in the United Nations Security Council can no longer be delayed,” Modi said.
India has long championed comprehensive reforms of the Security Council, arguing that the body—established in 1945—no longer reflects today’s geopolitical realities. New Delhi has consistently maintained that it deserves a permanent seat and has called for expansion in both the permanent and non-permanent categories of the Council.
India has also warned that expanding only the non-permanent membership would fail to address the imbalance in decision-making power held by the five permanent members.
Last month, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni, criticized the slow pace of reform negotiations, cautioning that the principle of “nothing is agreed until everything is agreed” should not be used to obstruct meaningful progress.
Following his engagements in New York, Jaishankar will travel to Brussels to attend the 3rd India-EU Trade and Technology Council meeting and hold discussions with European Union and Belgian leaders on July 14–15.
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