“This is best to do through a much wider lens than only in India focused on better understanding formulas,” said TS Tirumurti, a former Indian ambassador to the UN. | Photo Credit: Reuters
The polarized world has become more and more led to the fact that India has changed its voting strategy in the UN in such a way that the share of delay increased every year, while the vote “YES” decreased, the analysis found. According to former diplomats, this increase in the vote proportion could actually help India set up its own position on various questions.
Analysis of Hindus with more than 5,500 different distinctions in the UN, which India voted in 1946 and June 2025, shows that the annual “yes” of votes in India dropped to 56%, the lowest since 1955. increased to 44%, the highest share in India, India, India, India, India
The data also shows that this change in voting formulas began around 2019.
The Indian vote formula remained volatile until the end of the 1960s, with the percentage of annual “yes” votes between 20% and 100%. The percentage of delay also varied between 0% and 40% during this period.
The next 25 years – between 1970 and 1994 – there was a significant reduction in the size of this volatility. The percentage of annual “yes” votes in this period ranged between a low 74% and a maximum of 96%. During this period they also ranged between annual delay between 8% and 19%.
Between the middle of 90 and 2019, Indian voting patterns in the UN became even more stable, while the share of “yes” votes between 75% and 83%. The share of the vote was between 10% and 17%.
According to former UN representatives, the increase in voting is at the same time a reflection of an increasingly polarized world and also a reflection of the fact that the UN resolution has become much more complicated.
“Passing about a useful tool”
“This is best to deal with a much wider lens than only in India focused on better understanding formulas,” explained TS Tirumurti, a former permanent representative of UN India. “It is probably a reflection of greater polarization between the main powers in the UN, which led to a smaller incentive to compromise on both sides to seek to solve consensus, which was about ten years earlier.”
In such a context, Mr. Tirumurti further stated that the emerging and medium forces such as India would also be abstained than to go along with the consensus or vote against it.
According to Syed Akbaruddin, a former permanent representative of India in the UN, is now a vote for a resolution or against a resolution because they have become very more complicated, according to Syed Akbaruddin, a former permanent representative of India in India
“Previously, the resolution was clear and focused on one topic,” he explained. “Now it happens that questioned resolutions become as Christmas trees where several different aspects and provisions on the same solution are suspended. There are situations where we can agree with most solutions, but not some.”
Published – 20 July 2025 23:07
