Republic of India
A. Gopinathan
India is considered a candidate for a permanent seat on the Security Council, should it expand. A. Gopinathan is India’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations. The following is excerpted from Gopinathan’s address to the United Nations General Assembly on October 14, 2003. Many delegations expressed during the general debate, held at the beginning of the fifty-eighth session, a sense of deep regret over the inability of the Security Council to reach satisfactory agreement on the issue of war and peace involving Iraq in the first quarter of this year. Many attributed the inability of the Security Council to…
