17.7.11

Of China, India & the UNSC



CPM leader Sitaram Yechury on Saturday said that China has no objection to India’s bid for permanent United Nations Security Council (UNSC) membership but would want New Delhi to abandon its joint campaign with Japan for it. India is campaigning with the G-4 group, comprising India, Japan, Germany and Brazil, for its UNSC bid. “China has no objection to India becoming a (permanent) member of UNSC but not as part of G-4,” Yechury, who met top Chinese diplomat and state councillor Dai Bingguo on Friday, told reporters. Yechury said it was for the first time that there was a sense of clarity in China’s stand on India’s bid. “China has a problem supporting as it it firmly opposed to Japan’s bid due to historical baggage,” he said. China’s distrust of Japan is well known but it has never publicly made it a pre-condition for its support for New Delhi’s UNSC bid. Chinese leaders have no far restricted themselves to saying that it supported India’s case “in principal”. The CPM leader is in China on ruling Communist Party of China’s invitation to strengthen ties between the two parties.

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