The Hindu : China non-committal on seat for India

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Wednesday, Mar 05, 2003

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China non-committal on seat for India

BEIJING MARCH 4. China was today non-committal on supporting India's candidature for a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council and said more discussions were needed to arrive at a ``consensus'' on the issue.

``Reform of the Security Council involves the interests of many countries. There is no time-table for that and there should be plenty of discussions for consensus to be reached,'' the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

On supporting India's candidature for a permanent seat, he said it ``involves changes in the Security Council as a whole.''

China, one of the five permanent members of the Council, agrees that reforms should be undertaken and that more developing countries should have representation in it.

``China's position on that is that with the development of times over the past 50 years, some changes should be made to the U.N. Security Council. But the first important thing to be considered is that more representation should be given to developing countries.'' — PTI

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