'UN Security Council, an old club with set of members who don't want to be questioned'

Bengaluru: Expressing his displeasure over India not getting permanent membership in the UN Security Council, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday said the UN Security Council is like an old club with a set (of) members who do not want to let go of their grip and not keen to have their practices questioned.

He also said that the countries in the world want reform of the UN because it is not fair if "You don't want to change the original promoters of the business."

"They want to keep control over the club and not keen to admit more members and are not keen to have their practices questioned," Jaishankar said during an interaction after a lecture on the topic ‘A decade of change', organised by the Rotary Institute.

Replying to a question on when India will get a permanent seat in the UN Security Council, Jaishankar said, "In a way it's a human failing, but I think today it is harming the world because of the key issues confronting the world and the UN getting less and less effective."

Speaking about global sentiment, he said the nations are keen on reforms.

"If you ask the 200 countries that do you want reform or you don't want reform? They will say yes, we want reform because that was invented at a time when the membership of the UN was about 50 countries. Yet you don't want to change the original promoter of the business. It's not fair," the minister said. (PTI)