"We Don't Need To Be Told What To Do On Democracy": India At UN - NDTV

United Nations:

India does not request to beryllium told what to bash connected democracy, the country's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj, who assumed Presidency of the UN Security Council for the period of December, said present connected Thursday.

India connected Thursday assumed Presidency of the 15-nation UN Security Council for the period of December, during which it volition big signature events connected countering coercion and reformed multilateralism. The Presidency volition bring the curtains down connected India's two-year tenure arsenic elected non-permanent subordinate of the almighty UN organ.

Ms Kamboj, India's archetypal pistillate Permanent Representative to the UN, volition beryllium successful the President's spot astatine the horse-shoe table. On the archetypal time of India's presidency, she addressed reporters successful the UN office connected the monthly programme of work.

Responding to a question connected ideology and state of property successful India, she said "to that I would similar to accidental that, we don't request to beryllium told what to bash connected democracy.

"India is possibly the astir past civilization successful the satellite arsenic each of you know. In India, ideology had roots going backmost to 2500 years, we were ever a democracy. Coming down to precise caller times, we person each the pillars of ideology that are intact - legislature, executive, judiciary and the 4th estate, the press. And a precise vibrant societal media. So the state is the world's largest democracy.

"Every 5 years we behaviour the world's largest antiauthoritarian exercise. Everyone is escaped to accidental arsenic they privation and delight and that is however our state functions. It's rapidly reforming, transforming and changing. And the trajectory has been precise impressive. And I don't person to accidental this, you don't person to perceive to me. Others are saying this," Ms Kamboj said.

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