Brazilian president says it is inadmissible that India, Brazil not UNSC members

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also emphasized that the two countries stand for multilateralism in international relations

With India and Brazil not being Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, the very legality of UNSC is questionable. Imagine the World’s most populous country with a population of 140 Crores that is 18% of humanity not being there ?

While Britain, which nowadays very few even take seriously, with a population of just 7 Crores and size wise 14 times smaller than India is still desperately clinging to its seat.

Similarly Brazil the largest country of South America is missing from the Security Council and even Africa is not represented.

Therefore the Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has now called for reforming the UN Security Council as the absence of such large countries as Brazil and India is inadmissible in the current international Order.

“It is inadmissible that such large countries as India and Brazil are not among the permanent members of the UN Security Council,” he told reporters during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to Brazil.

According to Lula da Silva, Brazil and India “have enormous potential” and hence they have the right to take part in the work of the UN Security Council. “We don’t want the United Nations to be week,” he stressed.

India is already the third largest economy in PPP terms which gives more accurate state of any economy and soon will be so even in US dollar terms. Militarily too it is now the fourth most powerful military.

President Lula also emphasized that the two countries stand for multilateralism in international relations. “We want to tell the world that we are sovereign countries. We will not tolerate any interference into our [domestic] affairs by anyone we want multilateralism,” he stated.

Earlier, Lula da Silva and Modi took part in the BRICS summit that was held in Rio de Janeiro on July 6 and 7.