At UNSC, India asks why UN body ‘completely ineffective’ in resolving Russia-Ukraine conflict I VIDEO

India has questioned why the UN Security Council has been rendered “completely ineffective” in resolving the Russia-Ukraine conflict that has continued unabated for two years, as New Delhi asserted that outdated structures need reform for multilateralism to be effective.

India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador, Ruchira Kamboj, raised the question at a UN General Assembly plenary meeting held to mark two years since the beginning of the Ukraine conflict on February 24, 2022.

‘As the conflict has continued for two years unabated, we, the comity of UN Member States, must pause and ask ourselves two pressing questions,’ Kamboj told the UN General Assembly meeting on the Ukraine conflict. ‘Are we anywhere near a possible, acceptable solution? And if not, why is it that the UN system, particularly its principal organ, the United Nations Security Council, is mandated to primarily maintain international peace and security? Why is it rendered completely ineffective in the resolution of the ongoing conflict,’ Kamboj questioned.

UN Ambassador, Ruchira Kamboj’s speech at UN

Last Friday, the General Assembly held a plenary debate on ‘The situation in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine’. Addressing the debate after its resumption on Monday, Kamboj asserted that for multilateralism to be effective, ‘outdated and archaic structures need reform and reinventing, or else their credibility will always be on the wane. And unless we fix that systemic flaw, we will continue to be found wanting.’

India continues to remain concerned over the situation in Ukraine

She reiterated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion that this is not an “era of war”, a remark that the Indian leader had made during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Samarkand in September 2022.

Kamboj told the General Assembly that India continues to remain concerned over the situation in Ukraine. ‘We have consistently held the position that no solution can ever come at the cost of human lives. The escalation of hostilities and violence is in no one’s interest,’ she said.