United Nations membership | |
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Represented by |
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Membership | Full member |
Since | 30 October 1945 |
UNSC seat | Non-permanent (G4 member) |
Permanent Representative | Parvathaneni Harish |
India was among the charter members of the United Nations that signed the Declaration by United Nations at Washington, D.C., on 1 January 1942[1] and also participated in the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco from 25 April to 26 June 1945. As a founding member of the United Nations, India strongly supports the purposes and principles of the UN and has made significant contributions in implementing the goals of the Charter, and the evolution of the UN's specialised programmes and agencies. In 1947, the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in New Delhi became the first United Nations office in independent India. [2]
India has been a non permanent member of the UN Security Council for eight terms (a total of ongoing 16 years), with the most recent being the 2021–22 term. India is a member of G4, group of nations who back each other in seeking a permanent seat on the Security Council and advocate in favour of the reformation of the UNSC. India is also part of the G-77.
India is a charter member of the United Nations and participates in all of its specialised agencies and organizations. India has contributed troops to United Nations peacekeeping efforts in Korea,[3][4] Egypt and the Congo in its earlier years and in Somalia, Angola, Haiti, Liberia, Lebanon and Rwanda in recent years, and more recently in the South Sudan conflict.[5]