161. Will Kashmir Move help India secure UN Security Council membership, or close that half-open door for ever? P S Remesh Chandran

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Will Kashmir Move help India secure UN Security Council membership, or close that half-open door for ever?

P. S. Remesh Chandran

Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum

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India has long been vying for a permanent membership in the UN Security Council to sit with America, Britain, France, China and Russia. India’s decades-long struggle for securing this coveted position very nearly came to fruition recently but for not getting enough votes. There was then an atmosphere of India winning this position in her next try.

This was before the Kashmir issue became bold headlines in the world’s media again and became a hot topic for discussion in world capitals and international forums in August 2019. It was reported that the India government under the Hindu regime of Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP met in parliament for a very brief session and using the majority of seats in parliament which is already under fire for the first time in India for massive election rigging and voting machine manipulation, passed a bill taking away the special status given to Jammu & Kashmir in 1947 at the time when India gained independence from the British, thus unilaterally resolving within a few minutes without discussion the most controversial issue between India and Pakistan which the world has been discussing for decades.

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Not only was the twin state of Jammu & Kashmir split into two separate states making the former secular twin state into a Hindu-dominating Jammu and a Muslim-dominating Kashmir- a move no democratic and secular Indian leader till now did not dare take- but the people of Kashmir including their former Chief Ministers and leaders were also put in prisons and a curfew and news and communication blackout declared. Now, after this bifurcation of India-possessed Jammu and Kashmir into two and the promised re-possession of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir soon, will this move ensure India’s entry into the UN Security Council, or close this already half-open door for ever?

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We know the UN Security Council was formed after the Second World War. U.S., U.K., Russia, France and China were the five permanent members then and they are still now. It must also be remembered that why they were the only five permanent members in the Security Council was because these five countries were never part of the Hitler’s or Mussolini’s or Hirohito’s move to divide the world between them and were the countries which helped stop the dividing of the world by Germany, Italy and Japan. It is to be remembered here that no attempts till now by Italy, Germany and Japan to enter the Security Council as permanent members were successful. It looks like an unwritten law that no fascist, autocratic, theocratic or non-secular country shall be admitted into the UN Security Council as permanent members which becomes significant in the matter of India’s attempts to enter the coveted council as a permanent member. India now qualifies in all these respects for permanently being kept out, it looks.

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The permanent membership in the Security Council has not always been without changes in representation. The China which was given a permanent membership was the Kuomintang China under Chiang Kai-shek which became extinct in 1949 following the Chinese Communist Revolution when the People’s Republic of China was established. Chiang Kai-shek who escaped to Formosa held on to the permanent membership for a time but then in …. it went to the Communist China. So, we cannot say that there were not changes in the permanent membership in the UN Security Council though there were not additions. When the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics split into several states also this question of who will represent Russia in the Security Council arose.

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About the Author P. S. Remesh Chandran:

Editor of Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum. Author of several books in English and in Malayalam. And also author of Swan: The Intelligent Picture Book. Born and brought up in the beautiful village of Nanniyode in the Sahya Mountain Valley in Trivandrum, in Kerala. Father British Council trained English teacher and Mother University educated. Matriculation with distinction and Pre Degree Studies in Science with National Merit Scholarship. Discontinued Diploma studies in Electronics and entered politics. Unmarried and single.

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UN Security Council Membership, Kashmir Abrogation Bifurcation Issue, August 2019, Hitler Mussolini Hirohito, News Communication Blackout, Curfew, India Pakistan, Voting Machine, BJP, India News,

First published on: Published on September 12, 2019

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