S Jaishankar to launch India’s bid for 2028-29 UN Security Council term in New York on July 13 | Today’s news
Minister of Foreign Affairs With Jaishankar, he is set to launch India’s campaign for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for 2028-29 next week. During his visit, he will also meet UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the headquarters of the world organization.
Jaishankar, who was on an official visit to Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman from July 5-10, 2026, “will visit New York to launch India’s official campaign for the 2028-29 UN Security Council term on July 13, 2026”. Ministry of Foreign Affairs he said earlier.
He is expected to arrive in the US on Saturday and formally launch India’s UN Security Council campaign for the 2028-29 term at a special event at the UN headquarters on Monday.
Jaishankar will then travel to Brussels to attend the third meeting of the India-EU Trade and Technology Council and hold talks with his EU and Belgian counterparts on July 14-15.
According to the meeting schedule published by the UN, Guterres will also meet Jaishankar UN headquarters on Monday afternoon, news agency PTI reported.
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India last held a seat on the Council in 2021–22
So far, India has served in the Security Council as an elected member on eight occasions — in 1950-51, 1967-68, 1972-73, 1977-78, 1984-85, 1991-92, 2011-2012 and 2021-22.
India’s election to the Security Council during the last instance in October 2010 with 187 votes was the highest in recent years.
India assumed the Presidency of the UN Security Council for the month of December 2022. This was the second time during its two-year tenure as an elected member of the UN Security Council (2021–2022) that India assumed the Presidency of the Council, having previously held the Presidency in August 2021.
Elections for the 2028-29 term will be held in June next year, with India and Tajikistan contesting for the only seat available in the Asia-Pacific group category, news agency PTI reported.
The election will take place amid major geopolitical shifts, with the world continuing to grapple with the war in Ukraine, the conflict in Gaza and the US-Israeli war against Iran, the report said.
For its candidature, India adopted the message “#India4UNSC 2028-29 Peace, Planet, Progress”.
Prime Minister Modi reiterates his push for UN Security Council reform
Addressing Indonesia’s parliament this week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the global order was changing rapidly and that developing countries like ours were seeking equal participation and a greater role in global affairs, adding that reforms to the UN Security Council “can no longer be delayed”.
India has long pushed for reform of the Security Council, including the expansion of its permanent and non-permanent categories, arguing that the 15-nation Council, established in 1945, was no longer fit for purpose in the 21st century and did not reflect current geopolitical realities.
