NEW YORK: India assumed the rotating presidency of the Security Council for the month of December on Thursday, the month New Delhi will also complete its two-year term as a non-permanent member of the 15-nation United Nations body. It is the second time India has held the chair, which rotates on a monthly basis in alphabetical order. She said S. Jaishankar, foreign minister of India, will travel to New York to preside over the debates in the third week of December. In India, she claimed, democracy had roots going back 2,500 years. So the country is the world’s largest democracy.”“Every five years we conduct the world’s largest democratic exercise,” she said.

Source: Libya Today December 03, 2022 08:28 UTC