April 29, 2005
 

Kofi Annan gives laddu to Indian thambis

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh claimed a few months ago in the Rajya Sabha that a permanent seat on the UN Security Council without a veto power was unacceptable to India.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, on his visit to India, has poured water over the claims. He has effectively told India to forget about a veto power because the existing permanent members would never agree to changing that part of the status quo. Natwar Singh continued to maintain that the issue was not closed and that the General Assembly would in fact decide on it.

I still maintain that it will not be worth the lobbying. Perhaps a more dramatic action like what was proposed on the Secular-Right blog would provoke the international community into acting with some more common sense.

Rambled @ 8:17 PM

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