UNITED NATIONS: India has accused the UN Security Council of “progressively” undermining the authority of the General Assembly on matters of what constitutes a threat to international peace and security and said the blame for this lies partly with the 193-member UN body for focusing on procedures rather than addressing substantive issues.
India’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador K Nagaraj Naidu stressed that the primacy of the General Assembly flows from the universality of its membership and the principle of sovereign equality of all its members.
“The ownership of Assembly’s deliberations and decisions are reflected in the widest possible participation of the full membership of the UN which is unmatched by any other organ,” he said on Tuesday.
There is, however, a general feeling that the prerogatives and authority of the General Assembly have been progressively undermined by the Security Council through its frequent attempts to redefine its scope of competence through wider and permissive interpretations of what constitutes a threat to international peace and security and by engaging in discussions on issues that clearly fall within the purview of the General Assembly, he said. (AGENCIES)
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