Rome, July 07: On the eve of the summit of Group of eight industrialised countries(G-8), Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made a strong pitch for UN Security Council reforms saying its present structure posed “serious problems of legitimacy.”
In the backof bids by India and countries like Japan and Germany to be made a permanent member of United Nation’s highest policy making body, Singh said the Security Council has not changed at all and its two-tiered membership where five permanent members have veto power was “clearly anachronistic.”
“The Security Council has not changed at all and its present structure poses serious problems of legitimacy. The system of two-tiered membership, which gives a veto to the five permanent members i.e. the nations that emerged victorious after the Second World War, is clearly anachronistic,” he said.
–PTI