India will assume the rotating presidency of the Council for the month of August next year
Current Affairs : India, which has been chosen as a non-perpetual individual from the Security Council, will fill in as the leader of the ground-breaking 15-country UN body for the long stretch of August, 2021.
The administration of the Council is held by every one of the individuals thus for one month, following the English sequential request of the part states’ names.
As per the data discharged by the workplace of the UN representative, India will expect the turning administration of the Council for the long stretch of August one year from now.
India will direct the Council again for a month in 2022.
India, Norway, Ireland, Mexico and Kenya were chosen as the non-changeless individuals from the UNSC for a two-year term starting January 1, 2021 on Wednesday.
In a first-of-its-sort political decision, envoys and ambassadors from 192 part states cast their voting forms in the General Assembly wearing covers and in adherence with the severe social separating rules in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
India, the embraced competitor from the Asia-Pacific States, won 184 votes out of the 192 voting forms cast.
Tunisia will start 2021 as the President of the Council in January, trailed by a month each for the remainder of the year by the UK, the US, Vietnam, China, Estonia, France, India, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico and Niger.
Aditi Mehta 