Indian Flag To Be Installed At UNSC Stakeout As It Begins 2-Year Tenure

India’s Permanent Representative to UN, Ambassador TS Tirumurti will set up the flag (Representational)

United Nations:

India’s flag can be put in on the United Nations Security Council stakeout on Monday because the nation begins its two-year tenure as a non-permanent member of the highly effective UN physique.

Flags of the 5 new incoming non-permanent members can be put in on the stakeout throughout a particular ceremony on January 4, the primary official working day of 2021.

India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador T S Tirumurti will set up the tricolour and is predicted to make temporary remarks on the ceremony.

Along with India, the incoming UNSC members are Norway, Kenya, Ireland and Mexico. They will be part of non-permanent members Estonia, Niger, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tunisia and Vietnam and the 5 everlasting members China, France, Russia, the UK and the US.

India would be the UNSC President in August 2021 and can preside over the Council once more for a month in 2022. The presidency of the Council is held by every of the members in flip for one month, following the English alphabetical order of the member states names.

The custom of the flag set up ceremony was launched by Kazakhstan in 2018.

“Like the changing of the guards, it is the changing of flags from outgoing to the new elected members. This solemn ceremony serves the purpose of affirming and respecting the new members with the recognition they deserve,” Kazakhstan’s former Permanent Representative to the UN Kairat Umarov had stated through the 2019 ceremony.

The ceremony was unanimously confirmed by all 15 UNSC members to grow to be an annual custom of the Security Council, Umarov had stated.

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